fjäll
See also: fjall
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fjɛlː]
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, From Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-. Cognate with Icelandic fjall, Faroese fjall, Norwegian fjell, German Fels (“rock”), English fell.
Noun
fjäll n
- a mountain
Usage notes
- An obsolete plural fjällar survives in some poetry.
- In western and northern Sweden and in Norway, mountains tend to be named fjäll/fjell and rivers älv/elv, even though they are named berg/kulle and å/flod elsewhere.
Declension
| Declension of fjäll | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | fjäll | fjället | fjäll | fjällen |
| Genitive | fjälls | fjällets | fjälls | fjällens |
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Etymology 2
From Old Swedish fiäl, cognate with Icelandic fjall (“hide, skin”), English fell, Latin pellis (“hide, skin”), also related to fäll and päls.
Noun
fjäll n
- a scale (a rigid plate in the skin of fish and reptiles)
Declension
| Declension of fjäll | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | fjäll | fjället | fjäll | fjällen |
| Genitive | fjälls | fjällets | fjälls | fjällens |
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References
- fjäll in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- fjäll in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.
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