trebjørn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tre (“tree”) +‎ bjørn (“bear”). May be a kind of avoidance speech similar to gråbein (“wolf”), buskefisk (“snake”), beinlaus (“wind”) etc.

Noun

trebjørn m (definite singular trebjørnen, indefinite plural trebjørnar, definite plural trebjørnane)

  1. a squirrel, a rodent of the subfamily Sciurinae

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