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However, the other Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, use words which specify the kinship like in Swedish (identically spelled among all three languages), as well as using common terms similar to grandmother (Danish: bedstemor, Norwegian: bestemor).
Many words of Nordic Romani origin have survived in the Scandinavian languages, both in common speech and slang. [12] Examples from Swedish: tjej, meaning 'girl' (originally slang, but now a more common alternative to the older flicka) puffra, meaning 'gun' (used to be common slang) hak, meaning 'place, joint, establishment' (used to be common ...
Below is a sampling of words for "grandma" or "grandmother" from various languages. Of course, this is by no means comprehensive: These are only a few languages, and even then many of these ...
Bokmålsordboka (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈbûːkmoːɫsˌuːrbuːkɑ]) is a dictionary of the Norwegian written language called Bokmål (lit. "book language"). It was published by the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo in cooperation with the Norwegian Language Council.
Norwegian (endonym: norsk ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language.Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very close.
Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words . Pages in category "Norwegian words and phrases"
The modern Japanese word for "father", chichi, is from older titi (but papa is more common colloquially in modern Japanese). Very few languages lack labial consonants (this mostly being attested on a family basis, in the Iroquoian and some of the Athabaskan languages), and only Arapaho is known to lack an open vowel /a
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