tungl

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰʏŋl̥/

Noun

tungl n (genitive singular tungls, nominative plural tungl)

1. a moon
2. a satellite

Declension

declension of tungl

n-s	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

Synonyms

• (moon): máni
• (satellite): fylgitungl

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

References

• “tungl”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1874, s.v. "tungl".