nifl

In compounds probably means “darkness”,^[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”) whence the Proto-Germanic *nebulaz, cognates with Old High German nebul (“fog”)^[1] (New High German nebel,^[1] whence Nebel (“fog, mist, haze; nebula”)) and Latin nebula (“fog; cloud; vapor”).^[1]

Compare njóla (“poetic: night”).

• IPA^(key): /nɪpl/
• Rhymes: -ɪpl

nifl n (genitive singular nifls, no plural)

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

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