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fála

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fala"

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *fēlǭ, the feminine of *fēlaz (“terrifying”), related to fæla.

Noun

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fála f

  1. a troll woman, a female jotun
  2. (heiti) axe[1]

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: fála (“adulterous woman; a shy sheep”) (second sense influenced by fælinn?)

References

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  1. ^ Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Øxar heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 813.
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