mál – Old Norse noun declension

Noun: mál

Gender: n

Nominative

Sg. Indef.	mál
Sg. Def.	málit
Pl. Indef.	mǫ́l
Pl. Def.	mǫ́lin

Genitive

Sg. Indef.	máls
Sg. Def.	málsins
Pl. Indef.	mála
Pl. Def.	málanna

Dative

Sg. Indef.	máli
Sg. Def.	málinu
Pl. Indef.	mǫ́lum
Pl. Def.	mǫ́lunum

Accusative

Sg. Indef.	mál
Sg. Def.	málit
Pl. Indef.	mǫ́l
Pl. Def.	mǫ́lin

Sample Sentences

í misseri eru mál tvau, í máli eru mánuðr þrír (in a half-year there are two seasons, in a seasons there are three months) [c. 1180, Rímbegla:]
mál es at eta (it is time to eat)

Nouns inflected like mál

bragarmál, mál,

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maþlą, whence also Old Saxon mahal, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (maþl). See: Gothic Nouns '𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻'.

Verbs referencing "mál"

Danish Nouns mål, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns mål, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns mål, Swedish Nouns mål, English Nouns blackmail, Faroese Nouns mál, Icelandic Nouns mál, Old English Nouns mæl, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns a-mål, Swedish Nouns mäle.