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

Cognate with Old High German scamil (whence 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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