skemill

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse skemill (“bench”), see fótskemill.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

skemill m (genitive singular skemils, nominative plural skemlar)

  1. footstool

Declension[edit]

declension of skemill
m-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skemill skemillinn skemlar skemlarnir
accusative skemil skemilinn skemla skemlana
dative skemli skemlinum skemlum skemlunum
genitive skemils skemilsins skemla skemlanna

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

skemill m

  1. footstool

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Danish: skammel
  • Icelandic: skemill
  • Swedish: skammel

References[edit]

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