tilfelli

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse tilfelli see there for more. Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Danish tilfælde. Compare German Zufall (chance, coincidence).

Noun[edit]

tilfelli n (genitive singular tilfellis, nominative plural tilfelli)

  1. case, instance, circumstance

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German toval, itself ultimately a calque of Latin accidens, possibly via Middle High German intemediary zuoval.[1][2][3]

Noun[edit]

tilfelli n

  1. case, occurrence, circumstance
  2. accident
  3. (grammar) a case

Declension[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Zufall” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
  2. ^ Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tilfelli”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 631
  3. ^ The template Template:R:is:Blöndal:1924 does not use the parameter(s):
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    Blöndal, Sigfús, Björg Þorláksdóttir Blöndal, Jón Ófeigsson, Holger Wiehe (1924) “tilfelli”, in Íslensk-Dönsk Orðabók / Islandsk-Dansk Ordbog[1] (in Danish), Reykjavík: Prentsmiðjan Gutenberg