vårå
Norwegian Nynorsk
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editEtymology 1
editNoun
editvårå
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Norse vera, where the vowels are fully levelled. Cf. våtå < vita.
Verb
editvårå (present tense e, past tense va, present participle veri or vori or viri or vyri or vyry)
- (dialectal, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) alternative form of vera (“to be”)
- 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af landsmaalet i Norge, Christiania: Printed by Carl C. Werner & Comp, page 8:
- saa kom Guten heim att aa ha’ ingjen Ting lært. Saa skul han lær’ sæg te Skomakar, aa dæ gjekk lik’eins; saa skul han vaaraa Snikkar, aa dæ gjekk paa saammaa Maatin.
- then the boy came home and had learnt nothing. Then he was learning how to be a shoemaker, and it ended the same; then he was going to be a carpenter, and it went the same way.
Etymology 3
editVerb
editvårå
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