noun
Meaning 1
A type of pagan incantation, spell, charm, and thereof.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
galder
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noun
Meaning 2
A type of magical chanting, especially relating to ljóðatal, gendered masculine and for protective effects.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: galdr
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Middle English galder, from Old English galdor, from Proto-West Germanic *galdr, from Proto-Germanic *galdraz (“song, incantation, spell”), through garnered interest via Old Norse galdr, equivelant to gale + -der, or yell + -der, deriving from a sense of "magical chanting".
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: galder — Translations
- Gutnish: galdur — Translations
- Icelandic: galdur — Translations
- Middle English: galder — Translations
- Norwegian Nynorsk: galder — Translations
- Old English: ġealdor — Translations
- Old English: galdor — Translations
- Old High German: galdar — Translations
- Old High German: galstar — Translations
- Old Norse: galdr — Translations
- Old Swedish: galder — Translations
- Old Swedish: gallir — Translations
- Swedish: galder — Translations