skalli

See also: Skalli

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skalli (“a bald head; skull”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *skaljō (“shell, husk”).

Noun

skalli m (genitive singular skalla, nominative plural skallar)

1. baldness

   Synonyms: sköllóttur, hárleysi

   Hann er að fá skalla.

   He's going bald.

2. baldhead, baldy
   • 2 Kings 2:23-24 (English and Icelandic)

     Þaðan hélt hann til Betel. Og er hann gekk upp veginn, gengu smásveinar út úr borginni, hæddu hann og kölluðu til hans: „Kom hingað, skalli! Kom hingað, skalli!“ Sneri hann sér þá við, og er hann sá þá, formælti hann þeim í nafni Drottins. Þá komu tvær birnur út úr skóginum og rifu í sundur fjörutíu og tvo af drengjunum.

     From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

3. a bald spot

   Synonym: skallablettur

4. (soccer) a header, the act of hitting the ball with the head
5. a crown, the top of the head

   Synonym: hvirfill

Declension

Declension of skalli (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	skalli	skallinn	skallar	skallarnir
accusative	skalla	skallann	skalla	skallana
dative	skalla	skallanum	sköllum	sköllunum
genitive	skalla	skallans	skalla	skallanna

Derived terms

• á skallanum, vera á skallanum (“be blind drunk”)
• fá skalla (“to go bald”)
• hafa skalla (“to be bald”)
• sitja með sveittan skallann, sitja með sveittan skallann yfir (“to sweat over something”)
• skalla
• sköllóttur

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “skull”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• illska