tilfelli

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tilfelli see there for more. Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Danish tilfælde. Compare German Zufall (chance, coincidence).

Noun

tilfelli n (genitive singular tilfellis, nominative plural tilfelli)

  1. case, instance, circumstance

Declension

Declension of tilfelli (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tilfelli tilfellið tilfelli tilfellin
accusative tilfelli tilfellið tilfelli tilfellin
dative tilfelli tilfellinu tilfellum tilfellunum
genitive tilfellis tilfellisins tilfella tilfellanna

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Middle Low German toval, itself ultimately a calque of Latin accidens, possibly via Middle High German intemediary zuoval.[1][2][3]

Noun

tilfelli n

  1. case, occurrence, circumstance
  2. accident
  3. (grammar) a case

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  1. ^ Zufall” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
  2. ^ Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tilfelli”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 631
  3. ^ Blöndal, Sigfús, Björg Þorláksdóttir Blöndal, Jón Ófeigsson, Holger Wiehe (1924) “tilfelli”, in Íslensk-Dönsk Orðabók / Islandsk-Dansk Ordbog[1] (in Danish), Reykjavík: Prentsmiðjan Gutenberg