sykne
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
sykne (present tense sykner, past tense sykna or syknet, past participle sykna or syknet)
- alternative form of sjukne
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle Norwegian sykna, from the first part of the Old Norse phrase sykn dagr (“working day”), sykn, likely meaning “innocent”. Compare modern Icelandic adjective sýkn. The sense of a working day might come from a notion that working on Sundays or other holidays was considered wrongful, but that working on other days bore with it a proper innocence.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sykne f (definite singular sykna, uncountable)
- (collective) working days, weekdays
- 1907, Jens Hæreid, Norigs nyare soga (etter 1814), Kristiania: Aschehoug, page 65:
- paa militærverkstaderne arbeidde dei dag og natt, helg og sykna.
- they worked in the military factories day and night, weekend and weekday.
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References edit
- “sykne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Eskeland, Lars (1948) “sykn(e)”, in Norsk rettskrivings-ordbok [Norwegian Orthographic Dictionary] (in Norwegian Nynorsk)
- Skard, Matias (1901) “sykna [ỳ], ei”, in Landsmaals-ordlista med rettleiding um skrivemaaten (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Kristiania: Aschehoug