skemill

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skemill (“bench”), see fótskemill.

Pronunciation

Noun

skemill m (genitive singular skemils, nominative plural skemlar)

  1. footstool

Declension

declension of skemill
m-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skemill skemillinn skemlar skemlarnir
accusative skemil skemilinn skemla skemlana
dative skemli skemlinum skemlum skemlunum
genitive skemils skemilsins skemla skemlanna

Synonyms

Derived terms

Old Norse

Etymology

Cognate with Old High German scamil (whence German Schemel (“stool”)) and Old English scamul (whence the English shambles) which are borrowings from the Vulgar Latin scamellum, a diminutive of Latin scamnum (“bench”).

Noun

skemill m

  1. footstool

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Danish: skammel
  • Icelandic: skemill

References

  • “skemill”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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