engill
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
engill m (genitive singular engils, nominative plural englar)
Declension edit
declension of engill
Derived terms edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Saxon engil and/or Old English enġel, from Proto-West Germanic *angil, which is borrowed via Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).
Noun edit
engill m
Declension edit
Declension of engill (strong a-stem)
Derived terms edit
- yfirengill (“archangel”)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “engill”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press