fífl
Appearance
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse fífl, from Proto-Germanic *fimfilaz. Cognate with Icelandic fimbul- (“mighty, great”) and Old English fifel (“monster, giant”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fífl n (genitive singular fífls, nominative plural fífl)
Declension
[edit]Variants
[edit]Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *fimfilaz. Cognate with Old Norse fimbul- (“mighty, great”) and Old English fifel (“monster, giant”).
Noun
[edit]fífl n
Related terms
[edit]- fífill (possibly)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “fífl”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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