fjäril

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Swedish

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en fjäril (sense 1)
fjäril / fjärilsim (sense 3)

Etymology

From Old Swedish fiædhal, from Old Norse fiðrildi from the older term fífrildi, from Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ *fīfildǭ (“butterfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *pāpel-, *pe(i)pel- (“butterfly”). The term fiðrildi came through the folk etymology that it was related to the Old Norse word fiðri (“feathers”) (compare the more modern Old Norse fiðr), from which the Icelandic fiður (“feathers, down”) came.

Cognate with Old High German fīvaltra (> Middle High German viveltre > dialectal German Feifalter); Old English fīfalde or fifalde; Icelandic fiðrildi; Norwegian Nynorsk fivreld or fibrelde and Latin pāpiliō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²fjɛːrɪl/
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Noun

fjäril c

  2. a butterfly
  3. (in technical language) a lepidopteran (also including moths)
  5. (swimming) butterfly (the butterfly stroke)
    Synonym: fjärilsim
    simma fjäril
    swim butterfly

Declension

Declension of fjäril 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fjäril fjärilen fjärilar fjärilarna
Genitive fjärils fjärilens fjärilars fjärilarnas

See also

References

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