tungl
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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse tungl (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *tunglą.
Pronunciation
Noun
tungl n (genitive singular tungls, nominative plural tungl)
- a moon
- Synonym: máni
- a satellite
- Synonym: fylgitungl
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| Solar System in Icelandic · Sólkerfið (layout · text) | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Star | Sólin | |||||||||||||||||
| IAU planets and notable dwarf planets |
Merkúr | Venus | Jörðin | Mars | Seres | Júpíter | Satúrnus | Úranus | Neptúnus | Plútó | Eris | |||||||
| Notable moons |
— | — | Tunglið | Fóbos Deimos |
— | Íó Evrópa Ganýmedes Kallistó |
Mímas Enkeladus Teþis Díóne Rea Títan Japetus |
Míranda Aríel Úmbríel Títanía Óberon |
Tríton | Karon | Dysnómía | |||||||
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *tunglą, cognate with Old High German *zungal (see there) and Old English tungol. Further etymology unknown; Pokorny reconstructs a PIE root *dengh- "to shine" just from this Germanic word and a Baltic word for "to seem, to appear" (Lithuanian diñga).
Noun
tungl n
Declension
Declension of tungl (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Icelandic: tungl
- Faroese: tungl
- Elfdalian: tunggel
- Old Swedish: tungel
- Swedish: (dated, dialectal) tungel