sjaug

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse sjau, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Numeral[edit]

sjaug

  1. (dialectal, Gudbrandsdalen) seven
    Synonym: sju
    • 1923, Ivar Kleiven, Lesja og Dovre, Kristiania: Aschehoug, page 255:
      sjaug store uaar i ra'
      seven bad years in a row

References[edit]

  • Ivar Aasen (1850) “sjau”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

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