skemill

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈscɛːmɪtl/
Rhymes: -ɛːmɪtl

Noun edit

skemill m (genitive singular skemils, nominative plural skemlar)

footstool

Declension edit

declension of skemill

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

Synonyms edit

(footstool): fótskemill, fótaskemill

Derived terms edit

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

skemill m

footstool

Derived terms edit

fótskemill

Descendants edit

Danish: skammel
Icelandic: skemill
Swedish: skammel

References edit

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

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