spegill

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse spegill, from Latin speculum, via Middle Low German spegel. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeiːjɪtl/

  Rhymes: -eiːjɪtl

Noun

spegill m (genitive singular spegils, nominative plural speglar)

1. mirror, looking-glass / looking glass

Old Norse

Etymology

Derived from Latin speculum, via Middle Low German spegel. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to see”).

Noun

spegill m (genitive spegils, plural speglar)

1. mirror, looking-glass / looking glass

Declension

  Declension of spegill (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	spegill	spegillinn	speglar	speglarnir
accusative	spegil	spegilinn	spegla	speglana
dative	spegli	speglinum	speglum	speglunum
genitive	spegils	spegilsins	spegla	speglanna

Synonyms

• skuggsjá

Descendants

• Faroese: spegil
• Icelandic: spegill
• Danish: spejl n
• Norwegian Bokmål: speil n
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spegel
  • → Northern Sami: speadjal
  • → Southern Sami: speejjele
• Swedish: spegel c
  • → Estonian: peegel
  • → Finnish: peili
    • → Ingrian: speili (from an early form)

References

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