dessutan
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom dess (“that”) + utan (“without”).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editdessutan
- also, besides, furthermore
- Det er ganske langt herfrå. Dessutan veit eg ikkje heilt kvar det er.
- That's quite a distance from here. Also, I don't know exactly where it is.
Synonyms
editSee also
edit- dessuten (Bokmål)
References
edit- “dessutan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
editAlternative forms
edit- deßutan (obsolete typography)
Adverb
editdessutan (not comparable)
- (archaic) Synonym of dessutom.
- 1740, Carl Gyllenborg, Svenska Sprätthöken, page 2:
- J wet Cousin at jag war alt för kort tid i Paris at kunna lära något där, deßutan hade jag lärt så mycket af Fransyskan och af andra främmande Språk, […]
- Ye knew, Cousin, that I was all too short a time in Paris to learn aught there; besides, I had learned so much from the French and from other foreign tongues, […]