tungl

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tungl (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *tunglą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰuŋl/

Noun

tungl n (genitive singular tungls, nominative plural tungl)

1. a moon
2. a satellite

Declension

declension of tungl

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tungl	tunglið	tungl	tunglin
accusative	tungl	tunglið	tungl	tunglin
dative	tungli	tunglinu	tunglum	tunglunum
genitive	tungls	tunglsins	tungla	tunglanna

Synonyms

• (moon): máni
• (satellite): fylgitungl

Derived terms

• gervitungl
• himintungl
• tunglmyrkvi
• tunglskin

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tunglą, cognate with Old High German *zungal (see there) and Old English tungol. Further etymology unknown; Pokorny reconstructs a PIE root *dengh- "to shine" just from this Germanic word and a Baltic word for "to seem, to appear" (Lithuanian diñga).

Noun

tungl n

1. moon

Derived terms

• tunglskin

Descendants

• Icelandic: tungl
• Old Swedish: tungel
  • Swedish: tungel (dated and dialectal)

References

• “tungl”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1874, s.v. "tungl".