See also: hall, håll, häll, Hall, and Häll

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse háll, from Proto-Germanic *hēlaz (slippery, deceitful), related to Middle Low German hāl (hidden) and Old High German hāli (smooth, slippery, weak). Further etymology unsure. Maybe from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱel- (to hide) (cf. Proto-Germanic *helaną (to conceal, hide)), or from *ḱelH- (to freeze), or from *kel- (to incline). Possible cognates in Icelandic are héla (hoarfrost) and hagl (hail).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

háll (comparative hálli or hálari, superlative hálastur)

  1. slippery
    Synonym: sleipur

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

  • hálka (slipperiness; slippery ice, glaze)

References edit

  1. ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 416
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “Hēli-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN