vǫllr

From Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). Cognate with Old English weald, wald, Old Frisian wald, Old Saxon wald, Old High German wald. According to Kloekhorst, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wólnus (“meadow, pasture”)^[1] and cognate with Hittite 𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑 (wellu-š, “pasture, meadow”).

• (9th century West Norse) IPA^(key): /wɒlːɹ̝/
• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒlːr̩/
• (Textbook Old Norse) IPA^(key): /ˈˈvɔlːr̩/

vǫllr m (genitive vallar, dative velli, plural vellir)

1. field, flat ground, meadow

• Icelandic: völlur
• Faroese: vøllur
• Norn: vällj, vaddl
• Norwegian Nynorsk: voll; (dialectal) vøll, vodd’e
• Old Swedish: valder
  • Swedish: vall
• Old Danish: wold, wall
  • Danish: vold, val
    • Norwegian Bokmål: voll