hverdag
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Compound of hver (“every”) + dag (“day”), from Old Norse hverr (“every”) dagr (“day”). Semantic shift of uncertain origin. Probably, from the original meaning "every day which is not a holy day". Plausibly under the influence of similar-sounding German "Werktag". Cognate with Swedish vardag and Norwegian Nynorsk kvardag, both with the same meaning.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
hverdag c (singular definite hverdagen, plural indefinite hverdage)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Danish hverdag. Compound of hver (“every”) + dag (“day”), from Old Norse hverr (“every”) dagr (“day”). Semantic shift of uncertain origin. Probably, from the original meaning "every day which is not a holy day". Plausibly under the influence of similar-sounding German "Werktag".
Noun edit
hverdag m (definite singular hverdagen, indefinite plural hverdager, definite plural hverdagene)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- kvardag (Nynorsk)
References edit
- Danish compound terms
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Danish
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Danish
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns