sjaug

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Numeral

sjaug

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

References

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

Anagrams

sjuga

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