fjall
Faroese
/fjatl/
noun
Definitions
- mountain
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse fjall inherited from Proto-Germanic *falisaz (cliff, rock) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pels (rock, boulder).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pels
Gloss
rock, boulder
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
岩, 巌
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *pelis- Proto-Indo-European
- *pels Proto-Indo-European
- fjell Norwegian Bokmål
- fjellheim Norwegian Bokmål
- *falisaz Proto-Germanic
- fjäll Swedish
- fjällabb Swedish
- fjällgås Swedish
- fjällpipare Swedish
- fjällripa Swedish
- fjällräv Swedish
- fjälluggla Swedish
- fjällvråk Swedish
- fjell Norwegian Nynorsk
- fjellheim Norwegian Nynorsk
- fjall Old Norse
- fjǫllóttr Old Norse
- fjeld Danish
- fjall Icelandic
- felis Old High German
- bládepla Faroese
- brúður Faroese
- fjallabládepla Faroese
- fjallabrúður Faroese
- fjallatimotey Faroese
- fjallatindur Faroese
- fjallígða Faroese
- timotey Faroese
- tindur Faroese
- ígða Faroese
- ísfjall Faroese
- ísur Faroese
- *felis Old Dutch
- fiäl Old Swedish
- fjell Westrobothnian
- *falis, *falisa Frankish
- *spesla Proto-Albanian