tilfelli

Icelandic

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) see there for more. Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Danish tilfælde. Compare German Zufall (“chance, coincidence”).

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. case, instance, circumstance

Declension
declension of tilfelli
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) tilfellið Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) tilfellin
accusative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) tilfellið Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) tilfellin
dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) tilfellinu tilfellum tilfellunum
genitive tilfellis tilfellisins tilfella tilfellanna

References

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
  3. Blöndal, Sigfús; Björg Þorláksdóttir Blöndal; Jón Ófeigsson; Holger Wiehe (1924), “tilfelli”, in Íslensk-Dönsk Orðabók / Islandsk-Dansk Ordbog (in Danish), Reykjavík: Prentsmiðjan Gutenberg
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