fjäll

• IPA^(key): [fjɛlː]

From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, from Proto-Germanic *falisaz, from *pels-, *pelis-. Cognate with Icelandic fjall, Faroese fjall, Norwegian fjell, German Fels (“rock”), English fell.

fjäll n

1. a mountain extending above the tree line

   Synonym: (mountain) berg

• Usually only of mountains in the Nordic countries.
• The 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 and å/flod elsewhere.

From Old Swedish fiäl, from Old Norse fjall, from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“hide, skin”).

Cognate with Icelandic fjall (“hide, skin”), English fell, Latin pellis (“hide, skin”), also related to fäll and päls.

fjäll n

1. a scale (on fish, reptiles, of thicker pieces of dry skin that flake off, etc.)

• fjällfisk
• fjällpansar
• fjällskivling
• fjällticka

• fjälla
• fjällig
• fjällning

• fjäll in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fjäll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fjäll in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)