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Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fífl (“fool, idiot, buffoon”). Cognate with Icelandic fífl (“fool, idiot, buffoon”).
Noun
fifl
- idiocy, folly, foolishness, ridiculousness
c. 1643, Stiernhielm, Georg, Gambla swea- och götha måles fatebur, Stockholm:Alt hwad Menniskian i Werlden fyses om, och äflas medh, är fifl (som the gambla tala) och folsko.- All that the human race in the world fusses about, and strive after, is idiocy (as the old say) and foolishness.