fjäll

See also: fjall

Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [fjɛlː]

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, From Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from *pels-, *pelis-. 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 and å/flod elsewhere.

Declension

Declension of fjäll
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fjäll	fjället	fjäll	fjällen
Genitive	fjälls	fjällets	fjälls	fjällens

Related terms

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
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fjäll	fjället	fjäll	fjällen
Genitive	fjälls	fjällets	fjälls	fjällens

Related terms

fjälla
fjällfisk
fjällig
fjällning
fjällpansar
fjällskivling
fjällticka

References

fjäll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
fjäll in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

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