gaddr

From Proto-Germanic *gazdaz. Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌶𐌳𐍃 (gazds, “sting, goad”).

gaddr m

1. goad, spike
2. hard snow

• Danish: gad, gedde
• Icelandic: gaddur
• Norwegian Bokmål: gadd
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gadd
• Swedish: gadd
• → Middle English: gadde; gedde
  • English: gad; ged

• “gaddr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press