fjall
Faroese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse fjall, Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfjall n (genitive singular fjals, plural fjøll)
Declension
editn10 | singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fjall | fjallið | fjøll | fjøllini |
accusative | fjall | fjallið | fjøll | fjøllini |
dative | fjalli | fjallinum | fjøllum | fjøllunum |
genitive | fjals | fjalsins | fjalla | fjallanna |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editIcelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse fjall, Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfjall n (genitive singular fjalls, nominative plural fjöll)
- mountain
- Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
- Elds er þörf
- þeim er inn er kominn
- og á kné kalinn.
- Matar og voða
- er manni þörf,
- þeim er hefir um fjall farið.
- Fire he needs
- who with frozen knees
- Has come from the cold without;
- Food and clothes
- must the farer have,
- The man from the mountains come.
- Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- eldfjall (“volcano”)
- fjalllaus
- fjallganga
- koma af fjöllum
- Svartfjallaland
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfjall n (genitive fjalls, plural fjǫll)
Declension
edit Declension of fjall (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
edit- fjǫllóttr (“mountainous”, adjective)
- Harvaðafjǫll (“Carpathian mountains”)
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: fjall, fell
- Faroese: fjall
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fjell; (dialectal) fjall, fjadd, fjedl
- Old Swedish: fiæl
- Swedish: fjäll
- Danish: fjeld
- Norwegian Bokmål: fjell
- → Middle English: fell, fel
References
edit- “fjall”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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