nåkån

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (Trøndelag, nåkkån)
• naakaan (the old way spelling)

Pronoun

nåkån

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag) alternative form of nokon (“someone, somebody, anybody”)
   • 1800, H.Barlien, Trondhiems Budstik:

     De tian: Du ska int tænk aa ta ifraa Naakaan enten Kjæringa hans, Dræin-en hans, held Tausa hans, int Oxin hæld Hæsten aa int naakaa taa alt det, som højre aam te.

     The tenth (commandment): You shall not think to take from anybody neither his wife, or his servant, or his servant girl, not his ox or horse, or anything that belongs to him)