sykne
Norwegian Bokmål
editVerb
editsykne (present tense sykner, past tense sykna or syknet, past participle sykna or syknet)
- alternative form of sjukne
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editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editsykne 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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editReferences
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
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