skarsl

Old Norse

Etymology

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Noun

skarsl n

1. snuff of a candle

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: skar
• Norwegian Bokmål: skar

References

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