skalli – Icelandic noun declension

Icelandic noun forms of skalli

Noun: skalli
Gender: m
Declension:

Nominative

Sg. Indef.skalli
Sg. Def.skallinn
Pl. Indef.skallar
Pl. Def.skallarnir

Genitive

Sg. Indef.skalla
Sg. Def.skallans
Pl. Indef.skalla
Pl. Def.skallanna

Dative

Sg. Indef.skalla
Sg. Def.skallanum
Pl. Indef.sköllum
Pl. Def.sköllunum

Accusative

Sg. Indef.skalla
Sg. Def.skallann
Pl. Indef.skalla
Pl. Def.skallana

Sample Sentences

  • Hann er að fá skalla. (He's going bald.)
  • Þaðan hélt hann til Betel. Og er hann gekk upp veginn, gengu smásveinar út úr borginni, hæddu hann og kölluðu til hans: „Kom hingað, skalli! Kom hingað, skalli!“ Sneri hann sér þá við, og er hann sá þá, formælti hann þeim í nafni Drottins. Þá komu tvær birnur út úr skóginum og rifu í sundur fjörutíu og tvo af drengjunum. (From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.) [2 Kings 2:23-24 (English and Icelandic)]

Nouns inflected like skalli

skalli, bekkjarlalli, æfingagalli, hjalli, pollagalli, Tjalli,

Etymology

From Old Norse skalli (“a bald head; skull”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *skaljō (“shell, husk”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'skalli'.

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