spegill
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse spegill, from Latin speculum, via Middle Low German spegel. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to see”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spegill m (genitive singular spegils, nominative plural speglar)
Declension edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Latin speculum, via Middle Low German spegel. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to see”).
Noun edit
spegill m (genitive spegils, plural speglar)
Declension edit
Declension of spegill (strong a-stem)
masculine | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | spegill | spegillinn | speglar | speglarnir |
accusative | spegil | spegilinn | spegla | speglana |
dative | spegli | speglinum | speglum | speglunum |
genitive | spegils | spegilsins | spegla | speglanna |
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “spegill”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press