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brȧtt +‎ fall

3 n

1. steep fall of a stream

From Old Norse brea, brjá (“to gleam, shine.”) Compare Norwegian Nynorsk brjå (“flash, lightning,”) brjå (“to gleam, glitter,”) Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly; appear briefly.”)

• IPA^(key): /²breːɣɐ/, /breɐ/

3

1. To flicker, sparkle, flame.

Compare bresa (“spread the legs.”)

3

1. boast, exaggerate

Possibly relating to bräj, breid (“wide.”)

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1. (anatomy) Crotch, crutch.
2. (zoology) Gland.

• bress

• bresa

From Old Norse bresta, from Proto-Germanic *brestaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”).

3 (preterite brestä)

1. (transitive) unpick, rip apart what is sewn
2. (intransitive) sprout, malt; of seed and seed grain

From Old Norse vríða, from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną.

3 (singular bri, preterite briidd or bräjj, supine bridi or bridd)

1. (transitive) To twist.
2. (reflexive) To sour.

• vriid
• vrii
• vrööyd
• wäir

• vridel
• vred

From Old Norse brík.

• IPA^(key): /briːk/

  Rhymes: -íːk

3 f (definite singular brika)

1. bench, bench board
2. shelf, niche, rim above the stove, slab or bricked board shelf over the stove, shelf on the baking oven wall
3. seat board with hole (in privy)

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Compare brest.

brîst

1. To be lacking, to fault.

3 f

1. A lack = laist.
2. (anatomy) The ankle.

3 m

1. A bunk.

• vrist

From Old Norse brók, cognate with Old English brōc (whence the English breech, breeches), Old High German bruoh (whence German Bruch) and Finnish ruoke (loanword).

3 f

1. A pair of trousers, pants.

From brok (“pied, motley colored”), from Old Norse, from Proto-Germanic *brōk-uhta- (“speckle, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁ǵ- (“to brighten”), thus related to Old Norse bjartr (“bright”). Compare other North Germanic forms brog(e), brok(e).

3 m

1. A variegated horse.

3 f

1. A variegated mare.
2. A variegated, multicolored fabric or cloth.

• broku (“variegated”)

From Old Norse bruni.

3 m

1. Burning.
2. Fire, conflagration.

3

1. To glow from feber.

• brausk

• IPA^(key): /²brʊsk/, /²brɔsk/, , Template:gmq-bot-pronu-note

• Rhymes: -ʊ̀sk

3 (preterite broskä)

1. (intransitive) crunch, crackle

   Hä brosk unner tennren

   It crackles under the teeth

brosk +‎ ber

3 n (definite plural broskbera)

1. Cornus suecica

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Old Norse brúk n

3 f

1. dung, fertilizer, manure

• brukning f

• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Brukkt”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 58

From Old Norse brúðr, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz.

3 f (definite singular brura)

1. a bride

• breurgómm
• brurframm
• brursvein
• brurpig

From Old Norse brjóta, from Proto-Germanic *breutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd-. Through vowel-substitution also found as bryt, bryit; compare bruttu.

• (Umeå, Bygdeå) IPA^(key): /²brʉːt/
• (Luleå) IPA^(key): /²breʊ̯ːt/
• (Kalix) IPA^(key): /²brɞʊ̯ːt/

  Rhymes: -ʉ̀ːt

3 (preterite bröjt or braut, supine brutti)

1. (transitive, with å or sånder) to break; to divide abruptly or remove a piece from something by breaking it

   Hä skikkä säg sä, att’n braut å bäinä

   It so happened, that he broke his leg.

• breot heode för

• bruttu

3

1. puzzled, embarrassed

3 f

1. quandary, concerns

   jö er i brögd

   I’m in a quandary

• brögd

• vräka

From Old Norse vreka, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną.

3 (singular bräk, preterite brok, plural brook, supine bräki)

1. to throw, heave
2. (reflexive, with adverb or preposition) hurry

• raka
• räka
• reka

• (Burträsk) IPA^(key):
• (Norsjö) IPA^(key):

3 (preterite bränknä)

1. To almost succumb to a heavy burden.

   hä var sóm ’an skull ’a bränknä

   It was as if he would have succumbed to the burden.

3 f

1. the steep front of a vehicle

• brȧtt

• brȧtt
• bräätt’

From brȧtt (“steep.”).

3 (preterite brättä)

1. (transitive) To bend, curve (skids, runners.)

From older bradur, from Old Norse bráðr, from Proto-Germanic *brēþaz.

3 (neuter brått)

1. Early, fast, very early; precocious.

   brå om mórna ― rising early in the morning

   Nögęs ve fåra så brått? ― Do we have to leave so early?

   Hon jär brå. ― She (the clock) is early; or she (the girl) is precocious.

• bråbehövän
• bråfiken
• bråfrejdu
• bråfång
• bråger
• bråkast
• bråvarm

Cognate with Icelandic bregða, pret. brá.

3

1. To take after.
2. To resemble.

   Hä skin som skull ä brå på grönt ― It look as if resembling green

3 n

1. what currently can be obtained quickly

• brågjer

bråd +‎ gjör = *brēþaz + *garwaz

• (Umeå, 1804) IPA^(key): /broˈɟʏːɾ/

3

1. early mature, rathripe; said of people and fruit

• seingör

• brak

From Old Norse bráka. Compare Norwegian bråka, Swedish bråka, Danish brage.

• Rhymes: -òːk

3 (preterite bråkä)

1. To break, tear up.

• Rhymes: -óːk

3 n

1. (pathology) Hernia.

• hęlslaust

3 n sg

1. The neuter singular of brå.

3

1. Too quickly, fast.

   Klokka går brått ― The clock runs too fast

3 m (definite singular bråvarmen)

1. heat generated by prematurely sliding the chimney damper

3 f (definite brögda)

1. quandary

From Old Norse brunnr, bruðr, from Proto-Germanic *brunnaz.

• (Hössjö, Umeå) IPA^(key):
• (Skellefteå, Överkalix ) IPA^(key):
• (Luleå) IPA^(key):

  Rhymes: -ʊ́nð, -ʊ́nː

3 n

1. a small hole in the ice; e.g. for getting water or washing

• smørbrönn

bröst +‎ gval

3 m

1. The cross section of a loom against which the chest of the weaver is supported.

3 f (definite brøspaua)

1. Bread shovel, peel.

From Old Norse brattr, brantr, from Proto-Germanic *brantaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrondos, from *bʰren-. Cognate with Faroese brattur, Icelandic brattur, Norwegian bratt, Danish brat, Swedish brant, and Old English brant, bront (English brant, brent, Scots brent.)

brȧ̆tt

1. steep

• sljett
• flat

• fjäll
• brätt
• håbb
• bäri
• bakk

3 f

1. the steep front of a vehicle

• brätt

• lang
• bräj
• haug
• stor
• tjɑkk
• tȯr
• vot
• ly
• kɑll

3 f (definite singular bua, definite plural buen)

1. (childish) ghost; nuisance, harm

   bua i feingren

   some sort of nuisance in the fingers

3

1. Alternative form of bufför

• buffer, buffär

Considered a contraction of Old Norse bú and fœra; compare Jamtish búføre, Helsingian buföra, Norwegian buføra (“To move the cows to pastures”), Old Norse búfarir f pl, búferli n (“A household's move from one place to another in the country”).

3 (preterite buffrä)

1. (intransitive) To move the cattle to the shielings.
2. (intransitive) To move, to resettle.

   Ska gje buffer heim nu?

   Are you going to move home now?

   Dȯm hallpå buffer.

   They are moving.

3. (intransitive) To move in general; about moving of any kind.

• buffring
• buffringsbok
• buffellning
• bufferning
• bufförning

• Stenberg, Pehr, Widmark, Gusten, 1804, Ordbok över Umemålet →ISBN
• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Bufför, buffär”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 63

• IPA^(key): /²bʉːɣʉ/ Template:gmq-bot-pronu-note
• Rhymes: -ʉ̀ːɣʉ

3 f

1. A kind of lattice or basket of withies for carrying hay, wood and the like with.

• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Bugu”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 64

3

1. To work with strength.

From Old Norse bolli, from Proto-Germanic *bullô.

3 m

1. wooden bowl, lathed vessel, big bowl

From Proto-Germanic *bullǭ.

3 f

1. loaf

• bullsjiv
• bullstommel
• rågbull

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1. Slice of wheat bread.

From Old Norse boltr; like Icelandic bolti, Danish bolt and Swedish bult probably partly from Middle Low German bolte, bolten, likely from the stem of Old Norse bolr, bulr "bole".

3 m

1. A beam in a loom.
2. An agricultural roller.
3. A bundle.

   vemarsbullt

   a bundle of wadmal

• bullt’

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bullt’

1. To flatten using an agricultural roller.

• bullt

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From Old Norse *bolóttr.

• IPA^(key): /²ˈbʉːɽˌʉːt/, /ˈbʉːɽʉt/

3 m

1. bull calf

• bulik

3

1. (of person) Original.

From Old Norse búnaðr (“equipment”) (also compare búningr); attested with the loaned Swedish plural form -(e)r.

3 f pl

1. frames for a table: table legs or supports and the whole structure on which the tabletop rests

• bolsbuner

• bonnt

3

1. proud, uppity

From Old Norse búr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz.

3 n

1. (hunting) cage for catching birds
2. hovel

• fåtabeor
• stabur

būrdēr

1. To embroider.

   hon sȧt(t) å burderä ― She sat and embroidered

• burdering

• Pehr Stenberg, 1804, Ordbok över Umemålet

3 (preterite & supine bussjä)

1. (transitive) To set the dog on someone.

Related to bȯss and bȯsa.

3 f (definite singular bussun)

1. straw bedding for pigs
2. bad bed/bedding/berth, bad lying place for people

• schwynbussu

From Old Norse bútr, likely in ablaut relation to Old Norse bauta, Old High German bōzan, Old English bēatan, English beat. Compare Jamtish búss, Norwegian butt, buss.

• IPA^(key): /bʉːt/

  Rhymes: -ʉ́ːt

3 m (definite butn)

1. A thick stick.
2. A piece, clod, lump.
3. In general that which is bulky and shapeless.

   En but dill kall

   a big and fat man

4. A cumulus cloud.

• (cloud): butes
• butut
• butsko

• IPA^(key): /²bʉːt/

  Rhymes: -ʉ̀ːt

3

1. To earth up potatoes with a certain kind of plough.

From but (“lump; cumulus”) +‎ -es (“middle voice verb suffix.”).

3

1. (middle voice, intransitive, of clouds) To form into lumps.

but +‎ -ut

3

1. grumpy, obtuse

3

1. begin, start, start off

• byggjen

From Old Norse byggja, byggva, from Proto-Germanic *būwijaną, frequentative form of *būaną = bo.

• IPA^(key): /bʏ̀d͡ʒː/, ,

  Rhymes: -ʏ̀t͡ɕː

3 (preterite bygd, supine bygdt, past participle bögd)

1. To build.

   Hä var int radt dill å byggj’n körk.

   It was not convenient to build a church.

2. To repair a net.

   Drängen männ kan bygg (byddj) hä’n bruti

   My farmhand can repair what he's broken.

• byddjå (“to start”)
• byggjen (“in the beginning”)

• byijen
• byiddjen

From Middle Low German beginnen.

3

1. In the beginning.

   byggjen a daom

   the beginning of the day, morning

   byggjen a vekkun

   the beginning of the week

• i fȯrstkȧsten

• byddjå

• Rhymes: -ʏ̀sː, -ø̀sː

3 f (definite singular byssa)

1. weapon, firearm

• glemabyss

3

1. present singular of byyt
2. imperative singular of byyt

3

1. To exchange in order to complement each other’s possessions.

From Middle Low German buten, from the prefix *bi- and a verb corresponding to Icelandic ýta and Danish yde, ultimately from *ūt.

3 (preterite baut, supine byti or bytt, past participle bytt)

1. (transitive) To switch, change, exchange.

• (exchange): kaast

• angerbytt
• bytihop
• byting (“little lame duck”)
• kyt å byt
• hytt å bytt

From Old Norse banna, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną.

• IPA^(key): /²banːes/, /²bænːɛs/

3 (preterite bântes)

1. (middle voice, intransitive) To swear, curse.

bäck +‎ ahlmytkj

3 n (definite bäck-ahlmytkjä)

1. The tufted loosestrife, (Lysimachia thyrsiflora.)

3 m

1. Alternative spelling of bekker

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From Old Norse belja.

• IPA^(key): /²bɛːɭɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛ̀ːlɪ

3 (preterite bęlję)

1. to bellow, low

From Old Norse belgja, from Proto-Germanic *balgijaną.

• IPA^(key): /²bɛːɽɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛ̀ːɽɪ

3 (preterite bęlję)

1. gulp up

   bäli uti segh ― to gulp up, swill

From Old Norse belgr, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz.

• IPA^(key): /²bɛːɽɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛ̀ːɽɪ

3 f (definite singular bęlja)

1. bellows; also about the belly of a cow that has eaten a lot

Compare Old Norse bella (“be able to”), whence Helsingian and Jamtish belle, Elfdalian bälla.

• IPA^(key): /²bɛlː/, /²be̞lː/, /²belː/, /²beːɭ/, /²beːɽ/

3

1. To try to do something without having the skill or ability, occupy oneself with something.

   beel ve

   to be occupied with ...

• bällen
• bällmakar

bäll +‎ -en

3

1. who is not perplexed

bäll +‎ -makar

3 m

1. tinkerer, experimenter

From Old Norse berr, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).

• IPA^(key): /bɛːr/, /baːr/, /beːr/, /bæːr/

3 (neuter bärt, adverb bära)

1. bare, free of snow, bare ground

• bärarmt
• bärbäint
• bärfot
• bärhändt
• bärjol
• bärskodd

3

1. barefoot

• berg
• bäri
• bäre

From Old Norse bjarg, berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /bɛre/, /bɛrɡ/, /be̞rɡ/

3 n (definite singular bärgä)

1. Mountain, bedrock.

   Han krävlä óppför bärgä ― He climbed up the mountain.

• berghåbb

From Old Norse bjarga (pres. berg), from Proto-Germanic *berganą.

• IPA^(key): /²bɛːre/, /²bɛːrɪ/, /²be̞rɡ/

3 (preterite bädh)

1. To harvest hay.
2. (reflexive) To have a livelihood, protect oneself.

• bärgän (“rich, wealthy”)
• bärgänhäit (“livelihood”)
• bärgning (“livelihood”)
• rabädh (“(of crop) harvested in a short time”)

bärg +‎ -en

• (Lövånger) IPA^(key): /²be̞rɡe̞n/

3

1. Rich, wealthy.

From Old Norse berhendt, berhandtr.

3

1. barehanded

• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Bär·händt”, “Bärhändt”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 23 and 76

bär +‎ jol

3 f (definite bärjola)

1. bare ground

3 (preterite bärrä)

1. (transitive) To stretch out, lock out.

   bärr arma ― to stretch out the arms from the body

   Talln bärr kvista sin ― The pine tree extends its boughs.

3

1. that can be carried

   Häddäna jär int bärän, hä jär för mykkjä tongt

   That there cannot be carried, it is much too heavy.

3 m

1. devil

• däväl
• djäkul

3 m

1. The trunk of a shirt, the sleeves and collar exempt.

• skjortbå

3 n

1. A message.

• kȯhlbȯd

• boda

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From Old Norse burt, brott, braut.

• (chiefly universal) IPA^(key): /boʈː/,

3

1. away, off (things, people that are in motion)

• åweg

• båhtti
• båhtta

From stȧ (“place.”) Compare Old Norse bulr, bolr (“bole, trunk,”) and bólstaðr (“living place, dwelling”) - see bol.

• (Burträsk, Lövånger) IPA^(key):
• (Bygdeå) IPA^(key):

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1. True home (for people who move around all over the place, but still somewhere have their actual home); homestead.

• bân
• ban

From Old Norse barn. Identical to Jamtish báðn and Norwegian bån.

• IPA^(key): , , , Template:gmq-bot-pronu-note

3 n (defininte singular bånä, dative bånen, definite plural båna, dative bånom, vocative bånä)

1. Child (young person.)

   syt bånom

   to take care of children

• barfödd (“born”)
• barsjuk
• bȧrstugu (“living room”)
• bȧrsäng
• bȧrsli (“childish”)
• bånsytar (“male caretaker of children”)
• bånsytersk (“female caretaker of children”)
• bånomaga
• hataban
• lesbån (“confirmand”)
• tegubån

3

1. perplexed, hesitant, puzzled

3 n (definite singular båslæde)

1. wooden partition between cow boxes

From Old Norse bátr, from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-.

• IPA^(key): /boːt/, /bɒːt/, /bɑːt/

  Rhymes: -óːt

3 m (definite båtn, plural bååt)

1. a boat

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Related to Old Norse bulr, bolr (“bole”).

• IPA^(key): ,

3 m

1. boil

• qwejs

3

1. Alternative spelling of båhtt

• båga
• boga
• boa

From Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.

• IPA^(key): , , ,

  Rhymes: -ʊ̀ːɣɐ

3 m

1. bow, arch, curve, arc, span
2. frame (painting, mirror)

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• bæijel
• baijel

3 m

1. bend, curvature, bow; e.g. of a road or a branch bent down by snow
2. hoop

Compare Danish ballade (“mischief”).

• IPA^(key): /bʏːl/

  Rhymes: -ǿːl

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1. (indeclinable) Mischief.

   full i böl

   full of mischief

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1. Rascal, punk.

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• bönne

Compare Old High German bauhan, pauhan n (“portentum, monstrum;”) bauhnjan, pauhnen (“renuere, abnuere.”)

3

1. (indeclinable) Wonder, something unusual, wonderful, extraordinary, evoking admiration or surprise.

   Hä var bönna!

   It was spectacular, wonderful, unmatched, extraordinary.

The word is used mostly adverbially or as an interjection.

• böönn’

From earlier *byr(i), from Old Norse *biri, beri, with loss of -i by analogy with present indicative ber; compare supine forms like byri, vyri, fyri.

• IPA^(key): /bɞːr/

3

1. singular present subjunctive of bera

3 m

1. Alternative spelling of børel

From Old Norse byrr + fastr.

3

1. lying still for headwind or lull
2. perplexed; in a bad situation

3

1. To get mad, ferment.

From Old Norse bytna.

3 (preterite & supine bötne)

1. To reach the bottom.

• böken

böönn’ (preterite & supine bönnä, passive bönnäs)

1. To look at something with surprise, dismay; to stare; to hesitate.

   Hvo bönn du ti?

   What are you staring at?

Is often said about cattle, though also of people who stupidly and with wonder or fear gape at unusual objects.

• bönna

From or related to Old Norse beygja (“to bend”), from Proto-Germanic *baugijaną.

• IPA^(key): /²bøːɣe̞ɽ/

3 (definite singular bøgla, plural bøgel, definite plural bøglen)

1. A buckle, dent on metal things.

• bönkel

3 (preterite bøgle)

1. To make bumps, buckles, dents.

   bøgel eint pæppére

   don't wrinkle the paper

3 m

1. A small and bad calf.
2. A boy.
3. An ox.

• kalvbørel
• paikbørel
• oksbørel

Like Norwegian bykja, bøykja, Swedish byka, Danish byge, bøge from Middle Low German būken, cognate to German bauchen, bäuchen, English buck; of unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): ,

  Rhymes: -ø̀ːt͡ɕ

bø̱̂tj (preterite bö̂kt, supine bökt)

1. to wash

• rääns
• tjwöött

bø̱̂tj n (definite singular bø̱̀tje)

1. laundry
2. fuss, noise

From Middle Low German bucken, from Old Saxon *bukkōn, from Proto-West Germanic *bukkōn. Cognate with Norwegian bukka, Swedish bocka, Danish bukke.

3 (preterite bȯckä)

1. (transitive) To arch.

   hä bȯgas på at bȯck ryddjen nȧlta ― It’s costly to bend one’s back a little.

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From Old Norse bukkr, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

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1. A buck.

   hjȧp geijtä, hjȧp bȯckä, hjȧp, hjȧp ― Shoo goats, shoo bucks, shoo, shoo!

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bak +‎ stugu

• (Umeå) IPA^(key): /bɞkɛˈstʉːɣʉ/

3 f

1. Bakehouse.

   mamma giär i bȯckästugun

   mom is in the bakehouse

3 m (definite singular bȯttnskȯrfwen, definite plural bȯttnskȯrfwa)

1. Saduria entomon.

• krövisk m
• goldjillt f

• IPA^(key): /²bɑrɡɐr/, /²bɑrjɐr/, /²bɔrjɐr/ Template:gmq-bot-pronu-note

3 m (definite singular bɑrgaɳ)

1. trader

• bɑrg
• bɑrgęli

From Old Norse *blœja, from Proto-Germanic *blahwjǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlok-. Cognate with Icelandic blæja (“veil.”).

bḷå̄i f

1. A winding cloth, a burial shroud.