háll

See also: hall, håll, häll, Hall, and Häll

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse háll, from Proto-Germanic *hēlaz (“slippery, deceitful”), related to Middle Low German hāl (“hidden”) and Old High German hāli (“smooth, slippery, weak”). Further etymology unsure. Maybe from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱel- (“to hide”) (cf. Proto-Germanic *helaną (“to conceal, hide”)), or from *ḱelH- (“to freeze”), or from *kel- (“to incline”). Possible cognates in Icelandic are héla (“hoarfrost”) and hagl (“hail”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhautl/
  • Rhymes: -autl

Adjective

háll (comparative hálli or hálari, superlative hálastur)

  1. slippery
    Synonym: sleipur

Declension

Derived terms

  • hálka (“slipperiness; slippery ice, glaze”)

References

  1. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 416
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “Hēli-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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