mál

• IPA^(key): /mɔɑːl/

  Rhymes: -ɔɑːl

• Rhymes: -ɔaːl

From Old Norse mál, from Proto-Germanic *maþlą.

mál n (genitive singular máls, plural mál)

1. language
2. speech
3. talk
4. matter
5. (law) cause

• endamál
• vandamál
• loyndarmál
• fiskivinnumál
• fíggjarmál
• skattamál
• rættarmál
• bergmál
• tungumál
• talumál
• skriftmál
• bundið mál
• óbundið mál
• málsgrein
• mállæra
• málnevnd

From Old Norse mál, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, whence also English meal. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁- (“to measure”).

mál n (genitive singular máls, plural mál)

1. measurement, size

• ummál

• IPA^(key): /mauːl/

  Rhymes: -auːl

From Old Norse mál, from Proto-Germanic *maþlą.

mál n (genitive singular máls, nominative plural mál)

1. language
2. speech
3. matter, affair
4. (law) cause
5. (informal) a big deal

• (language): tunga, tungumál, (chiefly archaic) sprok
• (speech): málfar, tungutak, mæli
• (measurement): mæling

• barnamál
• ekkert mál

  ekkert mál fyrir Jón Pál

• gælumál
• áhugamál
• forritunarmál
• smalamál
• tungumál

• mæla

From Old Norse mál, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, whence also English meal. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁- (“to measure”).

mál n (genitive singular máls, nominative plural mál)

1. measurements, a size, dimensions
2. a system of measurement
3. the appropriate time for something

   Er ekki mál að fara?

   Isn't it time to go?

4. a meal, mealtime

• (system of measurement): mælikerfi
• (meal): máltíð

• taka mál, taka mál af
• mál til komið
• vera mál
• milli mála

• mæla

From Proto-Germanic *maþlą, whence also Old Saxon mahal, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (maþl).

mál n

1. language
2. speech
3. matter, affair
4. (law) cause

From Proto-Germanic *mēlą (“measure, time, occassion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with Old English mǣl, Old Frisian mēl, Old Saxon māl, Old High German māl, Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌻 (mēl, “time, hour”).

mál n (genitive máls, plural mál)

1. measurement, size
2. time
3. meal, mealtime

From the same Germanic source as Old Saxon māl and Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌻 (mēl), used by Ulfilas to translate Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) and γράμμα (grámma). Related to Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (maljan) (translating Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “draw, write”)) and German malen (“to paint”).

mál n

1. a work of art inlaid in metal, especially on weapons