See spjall in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
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},
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},
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"english": "[…] and has so many things to tell; […]",
"ref": "Skáld-Helga Rímur: fjorda rima, verse 10, line 2, in 1838, Grønlands Historiske Mindesmærker, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 147",
"text": "[…] ok hefr svá margt í spjalli; […]"
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"english": "[…] old tales of men / the first I remember.",
"ref": "Vǫluspá, verse 1, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1",
"text": "[…] forn spjöll fíra, / þau er fremst um man."
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},
{
"english": "'fee-spells'",
"word": "féspjǫll"
},
{
"english": "gospel",
"word": "guðspjall"
},
{
"english": "lamentations",
"word": "móðug spjǫll"
},
{
"english": "news",
"word": "ný spjǫll"
},
{
"english": "to talk",
"word": "spjalla"
},
{
"english": "friend",
"word": "spjalli"
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{
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"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
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{
"form": "spjǫllum",
"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"indefinite",
"plural"
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"form": "spjǫllunum",
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"english": "[…] and has so many things to tell; […]",
"ref": "Skáld-Helga Rímur: fjorda rima, verse 10, line 2, in 1838, Grønlands Historiske Mindesmærker, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 147",
"text": "[…] ok hefr svá margt í spjalli; […]"
}
],
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{
"english": "[…] old tales of men / the first I remember.",
"ref": "Vǫluspá, verse 1, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1",
"text": "[…] forn spjöll fíra, / þau er fremst um man."
}
],
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"words, tales, tidings"
],
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[
"words",
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],
[
"tales",
"tales"
],
[
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"tidings"
]
],
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],
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],
"word": "spjall"
}
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