rosemaler

English

Fyrileivstugo, the interior of a living room from 1932 produced by Olav Fyrileiv, a woodcarver and rosemaler. It is in the collection of the Heddal Open Air Museum in Notodden, Telemark, Norway.

Etymology

rosemaling +‎ -er; or borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaler, from rose (“rose”) + male (“to paint”) (cognate with Old Danish malæ (Danish male), Old Norse mála, Old Swedish mala (Swedish mala), from Middle Low German mālen (“to paint”)) + -er (“-er, suffix indicating a person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊzəˌmɑːlə/, /-sə-/, /-ˌmɔː-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊzəˌmɑlɚ/
• Hyphenation: ros‧e‧mal‧er

Noun

rosemaler (plural rosemalers)

1. (US) A person who practises rosemaling.
   • 2006, Philip Nusbaum, “Rosemaling”, in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, Andrew [R. L.] Cayton, editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 410:

     Vesterheim, the Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, […] sponsored a national exhibition of rosemaling in 1967 and began inviting Norwegian masters to the museum to give workshops to grassroots rosemalers.

Related terms

• rosemaled
• rosemaling

Anagrams

• Morreales