nifl
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Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
In compounds probably means “darkness”,[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”) whence the Proto-Germanic *nebulaz, cognates with Old High German nebul (“fog”)[1] (New High German nebel,[1] whence Nebel (“fog, mist, haze; nebula”)) and Latin nebula (“fog; cloud; vapor”).[1]
Compare njóla (“poetic: night”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nifl n (genitive singular nifls, no plural)
Declension[edit]
declension of nifl
Derived terms[edit]
- niflfarinn (poetic: gone to hell, dead)
- niflgóður (poetic: evil)
- Niflheimur (Niflheim; the Mist Home, the "Abode of Mist", the Mist World; the domain of the dead, the Underworld)
- Niflhel (poetic: the dark abode of the being Hel)
- niflungur (poetic: a king, a head of state)
- Niflungar (Nibelung)
- niflvegur (poetic: a dark road)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. Page 667 of the Íslensk orðsifjabók (“Book of Icelandic Etymology”). Publisher: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi (“Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies”), first print November 1989 →ISBN
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