skemill

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skemill (bench), see fótskemill.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈscɛːmɪtl/
    Rhymes: -ɛːmɪtl

Noun

skemill m (genitive singular skemils, nominative plural skemlar)

  1. footstool

Declension

Synonyms

  • (footstool): fótskemill, fótaskemill

Derived terms

  • bænaskemill
  • fótaskemill
  • fótskemill

Old Norse

Etymology

Cognates with Old High German scamil (whence the German Schemel (stool)) and Old English scamul (whence the English shambles) which are borrowings from the Vulgar Latin scamellum a diminutive of Latin scamnum (bench).

Noun

skemill m

  1. footstool

Derived terms

  • fótskemill

Descendants

References

  • skemill in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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