tungl

 

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From Old Norse tungl (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *tunglą.

• IPA^(key): /tʰʏŋl̥/

tungl n (genitive singular tungls, nominative plural tungl)

1. a moon
2. a satellite

• (moon): máni
• (satellite): fylgitungl

• gervitungl
• himintungl
• tunglmyrkvi
• tunglskin

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).

tungl n

1. moon
2. heavenly body

• tunglskin (“moonlight”)
• ennitungl (“eye”, literally “forehead-moon”)

• Icelandic: tungl
• Faroese: tungl
• Elfdalian: tunggel
• Old Swedish: tungel
  • Swedish: (dated, dialectal) tungel

• “tungl”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1874, s.v. "tungl".