skemill

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skemill (“bench”), see fótskemill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈscɛːmɪtl/

  Rhymes: -ɛːmɪtl

Noun

skemill m (genitive singular skemils, nominative plural skemlar)

1. footstool

Declension

declension of skemill

m-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	skemill	skemillinn	skemlar	skemlarnir
accusative	skemil	skemilinn	skemla	skemlana
dative	skemli	skemlinum	skemlum	skemlunum
genitive	skemils	skemilsins	skemla	skemlanna

Synonyms

• (footstool): fótskemill, fótaskemill

Derived terms

• bænaskemill
• fótaskemill
• fótskemill

Old Norse

Etymology

Cognate with Old High German scamil (whence German Schemel (“stool”)) and Old English scamul (whence the English shambles) which are borrowings from the Vulgar Latin scamellum, a diminutive of Latin scamnum (“bench”).

Noun

skemill m

1. footstool

Derived terms

• fótskemill

Descendants

• Danish: skammel
• Icelandic: skemill
• Swedish: skammel

References

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