# dagr
## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day, name of the D-rune”). Cognate with Old English dæġ (Modern English day), Old Frisian dei, di, Old Saxon dag, Old Dutch dag, Old High German tac, tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /ˈdɑɣr̩/

### Noun

dagr m (genitive dags, dative degi, plural dagar)
* a day
** Sverris saga 162, in 1834, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VIII. Copenhagen, page 398:
    […] fór þá enn aptr til liðsins, var þá ok komit at dægi; […]
    […] but came then back to his people, when the day was nearly come; […]
* (in the plural) days, times
** Knýtlinga saga 65, in 1828, Þ. Guðmundsson, R. C. Rask, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume XI. Copenhagen, page 286:
    […] munu þeir bræðr hafa góða daga með Baldvina hertoga, […]
    […] the brothers will have happy days with the duke Baldwin, […]

#### Antonyms

* nátt (“night”)

#### Derived terms

* daga (“to dawn”)
* dagan (“dawn”)
* dagblik (“day-gleam”)
* dagfar, dagferð, dagfmálr (“day's journey”)
* dagganga (“a day's walk”)
* daggeisli (“ladylove, sweetheart”)
* daglangr (“all day long”)
* dagleið (“day's journey”)
* daglengis (“all day long”)
* dagliga (“daily”)
* dagligr (“daily”)
* daglát (“daydreams”)
* dagmessa (“morning terce”)
* dagmál (“time about 9 o’clock a.m.”)
* dagmálatið (“morning terce”)
* dagmögr (“man”)
* dagráð (“convenient time”)
* dagróðr (“day's rowing”)
* dagsannr (“plain as day”)
* dagsbrún (“daybreak”)
* dagsetr (“nightfall”)
* dagsetrsskeið (“time before nightfall”)
* dagsett (“at nightfall”)
* dagshald (“celebration of a day”)
* dagshelgr (“hallowedness of a day”)
* dagskemtan (“pastime”)
* dagskjarr (“shunning the daylight”)
* dagsljós (“daylight”)
* dagslátta (“day's mowing, three quarters of an acre”)
* dagsmagn (“in full daylight”)
* dagsmunr (“a day's diference”)
* dagstarf (“a day's work”)
* dagstingr (“daybreak”)
* dagstjarna (“the morning star”)
* dagstund (“daytime”)
* dagstœtr (“fixed as to the day”)
* dagsupprás (“daybreak”)
* dagsverk (“a day's work”)
* dagtími (“daytime”)
* dagtíðir (“dayservice”)
* dagverðarborð (“daymeal table”)
* dagverðarmál (“daymeal time”)
* dagverðr (“daymeal”)
* dagvillr (“not knowing what day it is”)
* dagvxr (“growth of a day”)
* dagþing (“appointed meeting”)
* dagþinga (“to negotiate”)
* dagþings (“negotiations”)
* deging (“dawn”)
* dǫgur (“dawn”)
* hvíldardagr m (“day of rest, the Sabbath”)
* verða dagfátr (“to be overtaken by night”)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: dagur
* Faroese: dagur
* Norn: dagh
** → Scots: dag (Orkney, Shetlandic)
* Norwegian Nynorsk: dag; (dialectal) dag’e
* Elfdalian: dag
* Old Swedish: dagher, ᚦᛆᚵᚼᚽᚱ
** Swedish: dag
* Old Danish: dagh
** Danish: dag
*** Norwegian Bokmål: dag
** Scanian: dağ
* Gutnish: dag

### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “dagr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 94
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “dagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 84; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
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