tilfelli
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Noun edit
tilfelli n (genitive singular tilfellis, nominative plural tilfelli)
Declension edit
declension of tilfelli
| n-s | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tilfelli | tilfellið | tilfelli | tilfellin |
| accusative | tilfelli | tilfellið | tilfelli | tilfellin |
| dative | tilfelli | tilfellinu | tilfellum | tilfellunum |
| genitive | tilfellis | tilfellisins | tilfella | tilfellanna |
References edit
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Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German toval, itself ultimately a calque of Latin accidens, possibly via Middle High German intemediary zuoval.[1][2][3]
Noun edit
tilfelli n
Declension edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References edit
- ^ “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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