My norse dictionary says: 'sk�l f. (pl. -ir, sjl(seldom). -ar)', meaning bowl. this I take to mean that it belongs to the feminine -ir class, but has also been found treated as the -ar class, a side variant, so to speak, though rare, but allowed. not that I necesarily would recomend it, more as a curiosity...
As I look closer at your declension, it looks odd to me... I suddenly see that my dictionary is curiously at odds with you, but only slightly...
And then I look at the message I wrote, and I don't know what I must have been thinking, 'sk�li' is not an option. i realise I must have declined it after the feminine -ar(2) undergroup class of the more 'normal' -ar(1) class which has strongly diverging declension in singular... -Sorry about that.
But still I'm happy I coincidently stumbled over yet another example of the lack of strict norme in the norse language.
Red cheeked, but satisfied that my horizon broadens!
AnnikaRunadis
Haukur �orgeirsson <haukurth@...> wrote:
> Even though I'm not Allan, I'll give an answer: it's 'sk�l' as the most
> common version of the acusative, but 'sk�li' is also acceptable as this
> version has been found in texts.
The second form is not familiar to me.
Perhaps you're confusing it with
the word 'sk�li' meaning "hall".
The declension of 'sk�l' meaning "bowl"
is as follows:
nom. sk�l
acc. sk�l
dat. sk�l
gen. sk�lar
nom. sk�lar
acc. sk�lar
dat. sk�lum
gen. sk�la
"Mj�k er br�gnum bekkr
bl��-sk�lar �ekkr."
Kve�ja,
Haukur
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