tilfelli

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tilfelli see there for more. Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Danish tilfælde. Compare German Zufall (“chance, coincidence”).

Noun

tilfelli n (genitive singular tilfellis, nominative plural tilfelli)

  1. case, instance, circumstance

Declension
declension of tilfelli
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tilfelli tilfellið tilfelli tilfellin
accusative tilfelli tilfellið tilfelli tilfellin
dative tilfelli tilfellinu tilfellum tilfellunum
genitive tilfellis tilfellisins tilfella tilfellanna

References
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Old Norse

Etymology

From Middle Low German toval, itself ultimately a calque of Latin accidens, possibly via Middle High German intemediary zuoval.[1][2][3]

Noun

tilfelli n

  1. case, occurrence, circumstance
  2. accident
  3. (grammar) a case

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References
  1. “Zufall” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
  2. Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tilfelli”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 631
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