fjäril

From Old Swedish fiædhal, from Old Norse fiðrildi from the older term fífrildi, from Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ *fīfildǭ (“butterfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *pāpel-, *pe(i)pel- (“butterfly”). The term fiðrildi came through the folk etymology that it was related to the Old Norse word fiðri (“feathers”) (compare the more modern Old Norse fiðr), from which the Icelandic fiður (“feathers, down”) came.

Cognate with Old High German fīvaltra (> Middle High German viveltre > provincial German feifalter); Old English fīfalde or fifalde; Icelandic fiðrildi; Norwegian Nynorsk fivreld or fibrelde and Latin pāpiliō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjɛːˌrɪl/

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fjäril c

1. a butterfly
2. (in technical language) a lepidopteran (also including moths)

• larv c
• mal c (“moth”)

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