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  • (“open”) Danish åben (“open”) Swedish öppen (“open”) Norwegian Bokmål åpen (“open”) Norwegian Nynorsk open (“open”) Icelandic opinn (“open”) Compare also Latin...
    57 KB (4,206 words) - 00:09, 12 December 2024
  • (fiction), page 155: "My dear Miss Parker, this is the open season on terrible practical jokes." 1959 October 26, “Music: Curtains Up!”, in Time‎[2], →OCLC...
    3 KB (325 words) - 10:33, 2 June 2024
  • glänta (category Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse)
    Swedish Wikipedia has an article on: glänta Wikipedia sv From Old Norse *glenta, *gletta, from Proto-Germanic *glentaną (“to slide; glide”), from Proto-Indo-European...
    747 bytes (97 words) - 01:04, 4 October 2024
  • rista Norwegian Bokmål: riste Norwegian Nynorsk: rista, riste Old Swedish: rista Swedish: rista Old Danish: ristæ Danish: riste rísta in A Concise Dictionary...
    1 KB (144 words) - 10:36, 7 November 2024
  • market value (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market. 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated...
    2 KB (101 words) - 13:31, 3 September 2024
  • tár (category Old Swedish links with redundant target parameters)
    Icelandic: tár Faroese: tár Norwegian Bokmål: tåre Norwegian Nynorsk: tåre Old Swedish: tār Swedish: tår Danish: tåre (“tear”), tår (“drop of liquid”)...
    5 KB (539 words) - 06:40, 5 December 2024
  • mulat (category Swedish terms with audio pronunciation)
    1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN mulat supine of mula From Proto-Central Philippine *muklat (“to open eyes”). Compare Ilocano buragat (“eyes opened wide”)...
    5 KB (652 words) - 11:59, 22 September 2024
  • disfigure (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    disfigured, so the company had to resort further east and on May 18, 1882, opened the railway pier and station at Craigendoran. leper (rare) disfiguration...
    3 KB (150 words) - 13:27, 3 December 2024
  • jack-in-the-box (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    (historical) A small but powerful kind of screw, used by burglars to break open safes. 2013, Donald Thomas, The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes: It was possible...
    2 KB (235 words) - 17:04, 29 October 2024
  • flaska (category Swedish terms derived from Old Norse)
    Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN From Old Norse flaska, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ...
    3 KB (307 words) - 11:08, 1 December 2024
  • rubba (category Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European)
    scrape”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Old Norse riūfa, rjúfa (“to break open, clear away”). Likely cognate of English rub. rubba (present rubbar, preterite...
    1 KB (167 words) - 08:36, 2 June 2024
  • canapé (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    canopy and conopeum. canapé (plural canapés) An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish. A...
    7 KB (678 words) - 19:36, 26 October 2024
  • veranda (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations. Translations to be checked roofed open gallery French véranda. veranda veranda, verandah “veranda”, in Luğatçıq...
    7 KB (573 words) - 20:39, 7 December 2024
  • öl (category Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish)
    ölkelduvatn ölkolla ölkrá ölvaður ölvíma ölvun   Swedish Wikipedia has an article on: öl Wikipedia sv From Old Swedish öl, from Old Norse ǫl (“ale, beer”), from...
    7 KB (890 words) - 10:45, 27 November 2024
  • buskis (category Swedish clippings)
    buskteater, busk- here meaning outside (see buske), +‎ -is. First attested in 1959. buskis c (colloquial, theater) A slapstick or farce played outside. Synonym:...
    1 KB (154 words) - 10:03, 15 July 2024
  • meniscus (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    or menisci) A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it. [from 17th c.] 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972...
    3 KB (215 words) - 15:22, 29 October 2024
  • explosive (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g. contact explosive Favier...
    9 KB (434 words) - 20:17, 8 December 2024
  • pick (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    banjo. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:...
    16 KB (1,720 words) - 16:06, 8 December 2024
  • push-button (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    button. 1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 581: The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously...
    2 KB (190 words) - 04:58, 15 June 2024
  • darling (category Terms with Swedish translations)
    dear to one. Mary, the youngest daughter, was always her mother's darling. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax: But Richmond, his grandfather's...
    10 KB (402 words) - 03:02, 21 November 2024
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