þengill

== Old Norse == === Etymology === Formally as if from Proto-Norse *ᚦᚨᛜᚷᛁᛚᚨᛉ (*þaŋgilaʀ). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === þengill m (genitive þengils, plural þenglar) (poetic) prince, king, lord ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== herþengill (“warrior king”) stólþengill (“emperor”, literally “throne-king”) yfirþengill (“overlord”) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: þengill ⇒ Icelandic: Þengill (male given name) Old Swedish: thængil, thængel (“lord”) ⇒ Old Swedish: Thængel (male given name) Swedish: Tengil (male given name) Old Danish: thengil === Further reading === Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), “þengill”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.) Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “þengill”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press “þengill” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen