fjall

From Old Norse fjall, Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.

• IPA^(key): /fjatl/

fjall n (genitive singular fjals, plural fjøll)

1. mountain

• ísfjall
• gosfjall
• eldfjall

• tindur
• brekka
• berg
• brattur

From Old Norse fjall, Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.

• IPA^(key): /fjatl/

  Rhymes: -atl

fjall n (genitive singular fjalls, nominative plural fjöll)

1. mountain
   • Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)

     Elds er þörf

     þeim er inn er kominn

     og á kné kalinn.

     Matar og voða

     er manni þörf,

     þeim er hefir um fjall farið.

     Fire he needs

     who with frozen knees

     Has come from the cold without;

     Food and clothes

     must the farer have,

     The man from the mountains come.

• eldfjall (“volcano”)
• fjalllaus
• fjallganga
• koma af fjöllum
• Svartfjallaland

• Old West Norse: fell
• Old East Norse: fiel, fiæl, fiæll

From Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-.

• IPA^(key): /fjɑlː/

fjall n (genitive fjalls, plural fjǫll)

1. mountain
2. based on descendants: steep or tall mountain
3. based on descendants: fell landscape (open mountain landscape; landscape over the tree line)

• fjǫllóttr (“mountainous”, adjective)
• Harvaðafjǫll (“Carpathian mountains”)

• Danish: fjeld, fjæld
• Faroese: fjall, fjøll
• Icelandic: fjall, fell
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fjell; (dialectal) fjall, fjøll, fjødd, fjadd, fjedd, fjedl, fjill, fill, fil, fel
• Old Swedish: fiæl, fiæll, fiel
  • Swedish: fjäll
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fjell
• Norn: *fiel
  • → Scots: (Orcadian) fiold, (Shetlandic) fiel, field
• → Middle English: fell, fel
  • Scots: fell
  • English: fell

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fjall”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive