galder

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".

galder (plural galders)

1. A type of pagan incantation, spell, charm, and thereof.
2. A type of magical chanting, especially relating to ljóðatal, gendered masculine and for protective effects.

   Synonym: galdr

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡalˀʌ] ~ [ˈɡalˀdʌ]

galder c (singular definite galderen, not used in plural form)

1. sorcery, wizardry, spell, incantation (particularly in Old Norse times)

• galdre

• sejd

• “galder” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “galder” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaldər/

galder (uncountable)

1. (hapax legomenon, Early Middle English) magic, enchantment

• → English: galder (learned)

• “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. charm, incantation, spell
   • 14th century, Sermones sacri Svecice. The Sermon Collection in Cod. AM 787 4°:

     Thin ilzska scal awita tik / oc thin franuænda fran gudhi oc rætte tro til troldom ok liff ok galdra ok andra diafwls konstir scal awita tik

     Thine anger shall chide you / and thine turning from god and right faith, to sorcery and magic potions and incantations and other devilry, shall chide you

2. song

• gallir
• ᚵᛆᛚᚦᚽᚱ

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

• galdra, galra
• galdran, galran

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

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

From Old Swedish galder, from Old Norse galdr, from Proto-Germanic *galdraz. Modern learned use overlaps with archaic and dialectal use.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡalˀʌ] ~ [ˈɡalˀdʌ]

galder m

1. (archaic) incantation, spell, charm (particularly in Old Norse times); galdr

• ormgalder (“serpent incantation”)
• galdrabrev (“incantation letter”)
• galderkona (“witch”)

• gala
• galdra
• galdran