fjall

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse fjall, Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fjatl/ === Noun === fjall n (genitive singular fjals, plural fjøll) mountain ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ísfjall gosfjall eldfjall ==== Related terms ==== tindur brekka berg brattur == Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse fjall, Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fjatl/ Rhymes: -atl === Noun === fjall n (genitive singular fjalls, nominative plural fjöll) mountain Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source) Elds er þörf þeim er inn er kominn og á kné kalinn. Matar og voða er manni þörf, þeim er hefir um fjall farið. Fire he needs who with frozen knees Has come from the cold without; Food and clothes must the farer have, The man from the mountains come. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== eldfjall (“volcano”) fjalllaus fjallganga koma af fjöllum Svartfjallaland == Old Norse == === Alternative forms === Old West Norse: fell Old East Norse: fiel, fiæl, fiæll === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fjɑlː/ === Noun === fjall n (genitive fjalls, plural fjǫll) mountain based on descendants: steep or tall mountain based on descendants: fell landscape (open mountain landscape; landscape over the tree line) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== fjǫllóttr (“mountainous”, adjective) Harvaðafjǫll (“Carpathian mountains”) ==== Descendants ==== Danish: fjeld, fjæld Faroese: fjall, fjøll Icelandic: fjall, fell Norwegian Nynorsk: fjell; (dialectal) fjall, fjøll, fjødd, fjadd, fjedd, fjedl, fjill, fill, fil, fel Old Swedish: fiæl, fiæll, fiel Swedish: fjäll Norwegian Bokmål: fjell Norn: *fiel → Scots: (Orcadian) fiold, (Shetlandic) fiel, field → Middle English: fell, fel Scots: fell English: fell === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fjall”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive