spjall
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse spjall, from Proto-Germanic *spellą. Cognate with English spell, dialectal German Spill, Albanian fjalë.
Noun
spjall n
Synonyms
Derived terms
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *spellą (“news, message, tale”). Cognate with Old English spel, spell, Old Saxon spel, Old High German spel, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻 (spill). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to tell”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
spjall n (genitive spjalls, plural spjǫll)
- saying, tale
- Skáld-Helga Rímur: fjorda rima, verse 10, line 2, in 1838, Grønlands Historiske Mindesmærker, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 147:
- […] ok hefr svá margt í spjalli; […]
- […] and has so many things to tell; […]
- Skáld-Helga Rímur: fjorda rima, verse 10, line 2, in 1838, Grønlands Historiske Mindesmærker, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 147:
- (poetic, especially in the plural) words, tales, tidings
Declension
Declension of spjall (strong a-stem)
neuter | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | spjall | spjallit | spjǫll | spjǫllin |
accusative | spjall | spjallit | spjǫll | spjǫllin |
dative | spjalli | spjallinu | spjǫllum | spjǫllunum |
genitive | spjalls | spjallsins | spjalla | spjallanna |
Derived terms
Terms derived from spjall
- spjallr (“spoken”)
- guðspjall (“gospel”)
- móðug spjǫll (“lamentations”)
- ný spjǫll (“news”)
Descendants
- Icelandic: spjall n
References
- “spjall”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spjall in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- spjall in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic neuter nouns
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- Old Norse terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse neuter nouns
- Old Norse neuter a-stem nouns