hvísla

== Icelandic == === Etymology === Related to Danish hvisle, Swedish vissla, Old English hwīslan (English whistle). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈkʰvistla] IPA(key): [ˈxʷistla] Rhymes: -istla === Verb === hvísla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hvíslaði, supine hvíslað) to whisper Synonym: hvískra ==== Conjugation ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hwistlōną (“to whistle, hiss”), whence also English whistle. === Verb === hvísla to whisper Synonym: hvískra ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: hvísla Norwegian Nynorsk: kvisle Norwegian Bokmål: kvisle Swedish: vissla Scanian: hvysla === Noun === hvísla f (genitive hvíslu) whisper Synonyms: hvískr, hvísl === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hvísla”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 220; also available at the Internet Archive