spegel
See also: Spegel
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Etymology
editFrom Old Norse spegill, from Middle Low German spēgel, from Latin speculum (“mirror”). Cognate with Faroese spegil, Icelandic spegill, Swedish spegel and Danish spejl (> Norwegian Bokmål speil)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editspegel m (definite singular spegelen, indefinite plural speglar, definite plural speglane)
References
edit- “spegel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Swedish speghil, from Old Norse spegill, from Middle Low German spēgel, from Medieval Latin speglum, from Latin speculum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editspegel c
- a mirror; a smooth reflecting surface
- Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som fagrast i landet är
- Mirror, mirror on the wall [there], tell me who the fairest in the country is (standard translation)
- 1990, Niklas Strömstedt (lyrics and music), “Om [If]”, in Om! [If!][1]:
- Leende spegel med brister och fel, ser att barnet har blivit en man. Och gudarna gav mig en underlig själ, som har svårt att ta för sig ibland.
- Smiling mirror with faults and errors, sees that the child has become a man. And the gods gave me a strange soul, that sometimes has a hard time helping itself to things [awkward translation that matches the meaning – "att ta för sig" (to take for oneself) means "to help oneself (to something)"].
- something flat and smooth, resembling a mirror (e.g. the surface of a lake)
- (figuratively) a mirror (something that reflects something)
- Filmer är en spegel av samhället
- Movies are a mirror of society
- (archaic) a (moral) guideline, used for correcting errors, similar to a mirror
Declension
editDeclension of spegel
Synonyms
edit- apglas (slang, obsolete)
Derived terms
edit- backspegel
- fickspegel
- hallspegel
- narrspegel
- nosspegel
- rakspegel
- skrattspegel
- skvallerspegel
- sminkspegel
- spegelbild
- spegelblank
- spegelbord
- spegelbricka
- spegeldamm
- spegeldörr
- spegelfäkteri
- spegelgalleri
- spegelglas
- spegelhylla
- spegelklar
- spegellampett
- spegelmonogram
- spegelram
- spegelreflexkamera
- spegelsal
- spegelsida
- spegelskala
- spegelskrift
- spegelskärva
- spegelteleskop
- spegelvägg
- spegelvänd
- spegelyta
Related terms
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- Swedish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *speḱ-
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
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