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)

  1. a moon
  2. a satellite

Declension
declension of tungl
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
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

  1. moon

Derived terms

Descendants

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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