kaldur

From Old Norse kaldr, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaltʊɹ/
• Rhymes: -altʊɹ

kaldur (comparative kaldari, superlative kaldastur)

1. cold

• heitur
• lýggjur
• varmur
• flógvur
• válgur

• frysta
• torna
• turrur
• vátur
• harður
• hvassur
• dustutur
• slættur
• tjúkkur
• langur

From Old Norse kaldr (“cold”), from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz (“cold”), from Proto-Germanic *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold; to freeze”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaltʏr/

  Rhymes: -altʏr

kaldur (comparative kaldari, superlative kaldastur)

1. (of a thing) cold; having a low temperature

   Kalt járn.

   Cold iron.

   Mér er kalt á höndunum.

   My hands are cold.

2. (of the weather) cold; causing the air to be cold
3. cold; unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling

   Köld augu.

   Cold eyes.

   Kaldur svipur.

   A cold look.

4. cool, calm

• (having a low temperature): svalur
• (unfriendly): óvinsamlegur, kuldalegur
• (cool): svalur, óhræddur, rólegur

• (antonym(s) of “having a low temperature”): heitur

• svalur