fála

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fala"

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fēlǭ, the feminine of *fēlaz (“terrifying”), related to fæla.

Noun

fála f

  1. a troll woman, a female jotun
  2. (heiti) axe[1]

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Icelandic: fála (“adulterous woman; a shy sheep”) (second sense influenced by fælinn?)

References

  1. ^ Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Øxar heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 813.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.