tungl

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tungl (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *tunglą.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰuŋl/

Noun

tungl n (genitive singular tungls, nominative plural tungl)

a moon
a satellite

Declension

declension of tungl

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular		plural
nominative	tungl	tunglið	tungl	tunglin
accusative	tungl	tunglið	tungl	tunglin
dative	tungli	tunglinu	tunglum	tunglunum
genitive	tungls	tunglsins	tungla	tunglanna

Synonyms

(moon): máni
(satellite): fylgitungl

Derived terms

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

moon

Derived terms

tunglskin

Descendants

Icelandic: tungl
Old Swedish: tungel
- Swedish: tungel (dated and dialectal)

References

tungl in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1874, s.v. "tungl".

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