dæll
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Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse dæll, from Proto-Germanic *dēlijaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aitl
Adjective
[edit]dæll (comparative dælli, superlative dælastur)
- friendly
- easy
- Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
- Vits er þörf
- þeim er víða ratar.
- Dælt er heima hvað.
- Að augabragði verður
- sá er ekki kann
- og með snotrum situr.
- Wits must he have
- who wanders wide,
- But all is easy at home;
- At the witless man
- the wise shall wink
- When among such men he sits.
- Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
Synonyms
[edit]- (friendly): vingjarnlegur
Derived terms
[edit]- gera sér dælt við (to be over-familiar with somebody)