galder

Inherited from Old English galdor, from Proto-West Germanic *galdr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːldər/

galder (uncountable)

1. (rare) magic, enchantment

• “gālder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 November 2018.

From Old Norse galdr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑldɛr/

galder m (definite singular galderen, indefinite plural galdrar, definite plural galdrane)

1. magic, wizardry (particularly in Old Norse times)

• “galder” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse galdr, from Proto-Germanic *galdraz.

galder m

1. song
2. charm, incantation, spell

• gallir
• ᚵᛆᛚᚦᚽᚱ

• fughlagalder (“bird incantation”)
• ormagalder (“serpent incantation”)
• galdra bref (“incantation letter”)
• galderkona, gallirkona (“witch”)

• galdra, galra
• galdran, galran

• Swedish: galder (repopularized via modern interest in Old Norse galdr)

From Old Norse geldr (“infertile, regarding cow”), potentially from Old Norse galli (“fault, flaw, shortcoming”). Cognate to Old Danish gold (“infertile”), English gelde, Old English gelde, Scots yelt, yell (“sterile”), ceasing to give milk, regional English yell (“dry (of cow)”).

Compare: Old Norse galtr, gǫltr, Old Swedish galter (“castrated livestock, castrated boar”), Swedish galt, Danish galt, Norwegian Bokmål galt, Icelandic göltur (“boar, hog”); English yelt, Middle English yelte, Old English ġilte (“young virdin sow”),

galder m

1. infertile

   ..opfostra älla yrkia thz gaalt oc ofructsamt är, hulkit som äkke födhir..

   ..to raise or claim that which is infertile and barren, which does not give birth..

2. unfruitful

• galter

• galdviþer (“unfruitful tree”)
• galnøt (“infertile cattle”)
• gallko, galdko (“infertile cow”)
• gallgrund (“infertile ground”)
• gallsnø (“weak ground”)
• gallstrand (“infertile beach”)
• galltupp (“infertile rooster”)

• galter (“castrated livestock, castrated boar”)

• Swedish: (dialektal) galdur, gåll