tilfelli

Icelandic

From Old Norse tilfelli see there for more. Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Danish tilfælde. Compare German Zufall (“chance, coincidence”).

tilfelli n (genitive singular tilfellis, nominative plural tilfelli)

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From Middle Low German toval, itself ultimately a calque of Latin accidens, possibly via Middle High German intemediary zuoval.^[1]^[2]^[3]

tilfelli n

^ “Zufall” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
^ Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tilfelli”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 631
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