afl

• IPA^(key): /apl/
• Rhymes: -apl

afl n (genitive singular afls, nominative plural öfl)

1. might, power, strength
2. force

   Öfl náttúrunnar.

   The forces of nature.

3. energy
4. violence, force

• (might): þróttur
• (force): kraftur
• (energy): orka
• (violence): ofbeldi

• af öllu afli (“with all one's might”)
• þyngdarafl (“gravity”)

Probably from Proto-Germanic *abalaz or *aflaz (“hearth”).

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈɑvl̩/

afl m (genitive afls, plural aflar)

1. a hearth (especially of a forge)
   • Stjórn 108, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 312:

     Enn er gull tok at brenna i aflinum.

     And the gold began to burn in the hearth.

• “afl”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• afl in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• afl in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

From Proto-Germanic *aflą.

afl n

1. physical strength
2. force, violence
3. plurality of votes, majority
4. virtue, inherent power

• Icelandic: afl; afli; (efla)
• Faroese: alv
• Norwegian: avl (dialectal)
• Old Swedish: afl
  • Swedish: avel, afvel (pre-1906 spelling)
• Danish: avl

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