- skæla
- bawl* * *1.d, [Dan. skjele; Germ. schielen], to make a wry face; skaela sig, Fas. iii. 471; hann er allr skældr og skakkr: to cry, of children, vertu ekki að skæla! skældu ekki!2.u, f. the making a wry face, crying: a nickname, Fms. ix. 479.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.