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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”).

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɣr̩/

dagr m (genitive dags, dative degi, plural dagar)

1. 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; […]
2. (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, […]

• nátt (“night”)

• 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”)

• 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

• 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 Internet Archive