[3] málan (m. acc. sg.) ‘prattling’: The adj. máll ‘prattling, talkative, chatty’ is otherwise attested only as the second element of compounds (see LP: máll). It is formed from the noun mál n. ‘speech’.
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.