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fjäll

fjäll

See also: fjall

Swedish

Noun

fjäll n

  1. a mountain
Declension
Inflection of fjäll 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fjäll fjället fjäll fjällen
Genitive fjälls fjällets fjälls fjällens
Usage notes
  • An obsolete plural fjällar survives in some poetry.
  • In western and northern Sweden and in Norway, mountains tend to be named fjäll/fjell and rivers älv/elv, even though they are named berg/kulle and å/flod elsewhere.
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Etymology 2

From Old Swedish fiäl, cognate with Icelandic fjall (hide, skin), English fell, Latin pellis (hide, skin), also related to fäll and päls.

Noun

fjäll n

  1. a scale (a rigid plate in the skin of fish and reptiles)
Declension
Inflection of fjäll 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fjäll fjället fjäll fjällen
Genitive fjälls fjällets fjälls fjällens
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