tungl
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse tungl (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *tunglą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰuŋl̥/
Noun
tungl n (genitive singular tungls, nominative plural tungl)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tungl | tunglið | tungl | tunglin |
| accusative | tungl | tunglið | tungl | tunglin |
| dative | tungli | tunglinu | tunglum | tunglunum |
| genitive | tungls | tunglsins | tungla | tunglanna |
Derived terms
- gervitungl
- himintungl
- tunglmyrkvi
- tunglskin
See also
| Solar System in Icelandic · Sólkerfið (layout · text) | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Star | Sólin | |||||||||||||||||
| IAU planets and notable dwarf planets |
Merkúr | Venus | Jörðin | Mars | Seres | Júpíter | Satúrnus | Úranus | Neptúnus | Plútó | Eris | |||||||
| Notable moons |
— | — | Tunglið | Fóbos Deimos |
— | Íó Evrópa Ganýmedes Kallistó |
Mímas Enkeladus Teþis Díóne Rea Títan Japetus |
Míranda Aríel Úmbríel Títanía Óberon |
Tríton | Karon | Dysnómía | |||||||
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *tunglą, cognate with Old High German *zungal (see there) and Old English tungol. Further etymology unknown; Pokorny reconstructs a PIE root *dengh- "to shine" just from this Germanic word and a Baltic word for "to seem, to appear" (Lithuanian diñga).
Noun
tungl n
Declension
| neuter | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tungl | tunglit | tungl | tunglin |
| accusative | tungl | tunglit | tungl | tunglin |
| dative | tungli | tunglinu | tunglum | tunglunum |
| genitive | tungls | tunglsins | tungla | tunglanna |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Icelandic: tungl
- Faroese: tungl
- Elfdalian: tunggel
- Old Swedish: tungel
- Swedish: (dated, dialectal) tungel
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tungl”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tungl”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive