gyrðill

== Old Norse == === Etymology === Akin to gyrða +‎ -ill. From Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz. Cognate to Old English gyrdel (whence English girdle). === Noun === gyrðill m girdle purse ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Faroese: gyrðil Icelandic: gyrðill Old Swedish: *giurdhil (attested in fægiurdhil) Swedish: gördel, (historical) giordel, giördel, gjördel, gijrell (gÿrell) Old Danish: *giurþil Danish: gjordel, gyrdel, gjortel, gyrtel, gørtel (influenced by Low German and Standard German) === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “gyrðill”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive