fjall

From Old Norse fjall, Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.

• IPA^(key): /fjatl/

fjall n (genitive singular fjals, plural fjøll)

1. mountain

• ísfjall
• gosfjall
• eldfjall

• tindur
• brekka
• berg
• brattur

From Old Norse fjall, Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.

• IPA^(key): /fjatl/

  Rhymes: -atl

fjall n (genitive singular fjalls, nominative plural fjöll)

1. mountain
   • Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)

     Elds er þörf

     þeim er inn er kominn

     og á kné kalinn.

     Matar og voða

     er manni þörf,

     þeim er hefir um fjall farið.

     Fire he needs

     who with frozen knees

     Has come from the cold without;

     Food and clothes

     must the farer have,

     The man from the mountains come.

• eldfjall (“volcano”)
• fjalllaus
• fjallganga
• koma af fjöllum
• Svartfjallaland

From Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.

• IPA^(key): /fjɑlː/

fjall n (genitive fjalls, plural fjǫll)

1. mountain

• fjǫllóttr (“mountainous”, adjective)
• Harvaðafjǫll (“Carpathian mountains”)

• Icelandic: fjall, fell
• Faroese: fjall
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fjell; (dialectal) fjall, fjadd
• Old Swedish: fiæl
  • Swedish: fjäll
• Danish: fjeld
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fjell
• → Middle English: fell, fel
  • Scots: fell, fiold
  • English: fell

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