• kvöld (common)

From Old Norse kveld, from Proto-Germanic *kweldą, *kwildiz.

• IPA^(key):

  Rhymes: -ɛlt

kveld n (genitive singular kvelds, nominative plural kveld)

1. (archaic or poetic) evening

   Synonym: aftann

   • Genesis 1:31 (Icelandic Bible, New International Version)

     Og Guð leit allt, sem hann hafði gjört, og sjá, það var harla gott. Það varð kveld og það varð morgunn, hinn sjötti dagur.

     God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

From Old Norse kveld, from Proto-Germanic *kweldą, *kwildiz.

• IPA^(key): /kʋɛlː/

kveld m (definite singular kvelden, indefinite plural kvelder, definite plural kveldene)

1. evening

   Ha en fin kveld.

   Have a nice evening.

   ta en tidlig kveld - have an early night (go to bed earlier than usual)

• aften

• i kveld
• kveldssol
• kveldstur

• “kveld” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse kveld, from Proto-Germanic *kweldą, *kwildiz.

• IPA^(key): /kʋɛlː/, /kʋɛld/

kveld m (definite singular kvelden, indefinite plural kveldar, definite plural kveldane)

1. an evening

• aftan, eftan

• “kveld” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• kveldr, kvøld — later form

From Proto-Germanic *kweldą, *kwildiz. Akin to Old English cwild (“downfall, death”), cwyldtīd (“evening”), Old High German quiltiwerc (“evening work”), dialectal German Kilt. Originally literally “the quelling ”, and exists also in the form kveld dags, usually with the preposition at: at kveldi dags (originally literally “at the end or quelling of the day”, hence “in the evening”). Related to kvelja, Old English cwellan, English quell, kill.

• IPA^(key): /kwɛld/

kveld n (genitive kvelds, plural kveld)

1. evening

   Synonym: aptann

• Icelandic: kveld n, kvöld n
• Faroese: kvøld n
• Norwegian Bokmål: kveld m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kveld m
• Old Swedish: quälder m, quäld n, quöld n
  • Swedish: kväll c, in dialects also kväller c, kvöld n
• Old Danish: kwæld
  • Danish: kvæld c (before and in dialects also n)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kveld”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• “kveld” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen
• “kveldr” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen