In compounds probably means “darkness”,^[1] ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*nébʰos(“cloud”) whence theProto-Germanic*nebulaz, cognates with Old High Germannebul(“fog”)^[1] (New High Germannebel,^[1] whenceNebel(“fog, mist, haze; nebula”)) and Latinnebula(“fog; cloud; vapor”).^[1]

Comparenjóla(“night”)(poetic).

• IPA^(key): /nɪpl/
• Rhymes:-ɪpl

nifl n (genitive singularnifls,no plural)

1. (poetic)fog,darkness^[1]

• niflfarinn(“gone to hell, dead”)(poetic)
• niflgóður(“evil”)(poetic)
• Niflheimur(“Niflheim; the Mist Home, the "Abode of Mist", the Mist World; the domain of the dead, the Underworld”)
• Niflhel(“the dark abode of the beingHel”)(poetic)
• niflungur(“a king, a head of state”)(poetic)
• Niflungar(“Nibelung”)
• niflvegur(“a dark road”)(poetic)

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