ǫxl

See also: öxl and øksl

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ahslō.

Noun

ǫxl f (genitive axlar, plural axlir)

1. (anatomy) shoulder
2. ridge (of a mountain)

Declension

Declension of ǫxl (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ǫxl	ǫxlin	axlir	axlirnar
accusative	ǫxl	ǫxlina	axlir	axlirnar
dative	ǫxl	ǫxlinni	ǫxlum	ǫxlunum
genitive	axlar	axlarinnar	axla	axlanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: öxl
• Faroese: øksl
• Norwegian Nynorsk: aksel, aksl, oksl
• Norwegian Bokmål: aksel
• Elfdalian: aksul
• Old Swedish: axl
  • Swedish: axel
    • → Elfdalian: aksel
• Old Danish: axæl
  • Danish: aksel

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “öxl”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 531; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

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