spegel
See also: Spegel
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse spegill, from Middle Low German spēgel, from Latin speculum (“mirror”). Cognate with Faroese spegil, Icelandic spegill, Swedish spegel and Danish spejl (> Norwegian Bokmål speil)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spegel m (definite singular spegelen, indefinite plural speglar, definite plural speglane)
References edit
- “spegel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish speghil, from Old Norse spegill, from Middle Low German spēgel, from Medieval Latin speglum, from Latin speculum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spegel c
- a mirror; a smooth reflecting surface
- Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som fagrast i landet är
- Mirror, mirror on the wall [there], tell me who the fairest in the country is (standard translation)
- 1990, Niklas Strömstedt (lyrics and music), “Om [If]”, in Om! [If!]:
- Leende spegel med brister och fel, ser att barnet har blivit en man. Och gudarna gav mig en underlig själ, som har svårt att ta för sig ibland.
- Smiling mirror with faults and errors, sees that the child has become a man. And the gods gave me a strange soul, that sometimes has a hard time helping itself to things [awkward translation that matches the meaning – "att ta för sig" (to take for oneself) means "to help oneself (to something)"].
- something flat and smooth, resembling a mirror (e.g. the surface of a lake)
- (figuratively) a mirror (something that reflects something)
- Filmer är en spegel av samhället
- Movies are a mirror of society
- (archaic) a (moral) guideline, used for correcting errors, similar to a mirror
Declension edit
| Declension of spegel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | spegel | spegeln | speglar | speglarna |
| Genitive | spegels | spegelns | speglars | speglarnas |
Synonyms edit
- apglas (slang, obsolete)
Derived terms edit
- backspegel
- fickspegel
- hallspegel
- narrspegel
- nosspegel
- rakspegel
- skrattspegel
- skvallerspegel
- sminkspegel
- spegelbild
- spegelblank
- spegelbord
- spegelbricka
- spegeldamm
- spegeldörr
- spegelfäkteri
- spegelgalleri
- spegelglas
- spegelhylla
- spegelklar
- spegellampett
- spegelmonogram
- spegelram
- spegelreflexkamera
- spegelsal
- spegelsida
- spegelskala
- spegelskrift
- spegelskärva
- spegelteleskop
- spegelvägg
- spegelvänd
- spegelyta