skemill

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skemill (“bench”), see fótskemill.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈscɛːmɪtl/
    Rhymes: -ɛːmɪtl

Noun

skemill m (genitive singular skemils, nominative plural skemlar)

  1. footstool

Declension
declension of skemill
m-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skemill skemillinn skemlar skemlarnir
accusative skemil skemilinn skemla skemlana
dative skemli skemlinum skemlum skemlunum
genitive skemils skemilsins skemla skemlanna

Synonyms
  • (footstool): fótskemill, fótaskemill

Derived terms
  • bænaskemill
  • fótaskemill
  • fótskemill

Old Norse

Etymology

Cognate with Old High German scamil (whence German Schemel (“stool”)) and Old English scamul (whence the English shambles) which are borrowings from the Vulgar Latin scamellum, a diminutive of Latin scamnum (“bench”).

Noun

skemill m

  1. footstool

Derived terms
  • fótskemill

Descendants
  • Danish: skammel
  • Icelandic: skemill
  • Swedish: skammel

References
  • “skemill”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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