tungl

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tungl (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *tunglą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰuŋl̥/

Noun

tungl n (genitive singular tungls, nominative plural tungl)

1. a moon

   Synonym: máni

2. a satellite

   Synonym: fylgitungl

Declension

Declension of tungl (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tungl	tunglið	tungl	tunglin
accusative	tungl	tunglið	tungl	tunglin
dative	tungli	tunglinu	tunglum	tunglunum
genitive	tungls	tunglsins	tungla	tunglanna

Derived terms

• gervitungl
• himintungl
• tunglmyrkvi
• tunglskin

See also

Solar System in Icelandic · Sólkerfið (layout · text)
Star	Sólin
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkúr	Venus	Jörðin	Mars	Seres	Júpíter	Satúrnus	Úranus	Neptúnus	Plútó	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Tunglið	Fóbos Deimos	—	Íó Evrópa Ganýmedes Kallistó	Mímas Enkeladus Teþis Díóne Rea Títan Japetus	Míranda Aríel Úmbríel Títanía Óberon	Tríton	Karon	Dysnómía

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tunglą, cognate with Old High German *zungal (see there) and Old English tungol. Further etymology unknown; Pokorny reconstructs a PIE root *dengh- "to shine" just from this Germanic word and a Baltic word for "to seem, to appear" (Lithuanian diñga).

Noun

tungl n

1. moon
2. heavenly body

Declension

Declension of tungl (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tungl	tunglit	tungl	tunglin
accusative	tungl	tunglit	tungl	tunglin
dative	tungli	tunglinu	tunglum	tunglunum
genitive	tungls	tunglsins	tungla	tunglanna

Derived terms

• tunglskin (“moonlight”)
• ennitungl (“eye”, literally “forehead-moon”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: tungl
• Faroese: tungl
• Elfdalian: tunggel
• Old Swedish: tungel
  • Swedish: (dated, dialectal) tungel

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tungl”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tungl”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive