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styggr

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Old Norse

Etymology

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Adjective

styggr

  1. shy

Declension

More information singular, masculine ...
More information singular, masculine ...

Descendants

  • Icelandic: styggur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: stygg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stygg
  • Old Swedish: stygger
  • Danish: styg

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “styggr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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