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)
- a moon
- 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) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Star | Sólin | |||||||||||||||||
Planets and most likely dwarf planets | Merkúr | Venus | Jörðin | Mars | Seres | Júpíter | Satúrnus | Úranus | Neptúnus | Plútó | ||||||||
Notable moons | — | Tunglið | Fóbos Deimos | — | Íó Evrópa Ganýmedes Kallistó | Mímas Enkeladus Teþis Díóne Rea Títan Japetus | Míranda Aríel Úmbríel Títanía Óberon | Tríton | [Term?] [Term?] [Term?] [Term?] [Term?] |
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
- moon
- 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".