Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *librō, whence also Old English lifer, Old High German lebara.
Noun
[edit]lifr f
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: lifur
- Faroese: livur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: liver, lever; (dialectal) livr, livur
- Elfdalian: lyr
- Old Swedish: liver
- Swedish: lever
- Old Danish: liuær
Further reading
[edit]- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lifr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive