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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse árla, from Old Norse ár, from Proto-Germanic *airi. Related to English early.
Adverb
arla (not comparable)
- (archaic) early in the morning
i arla morgonstund- bright and early
- (literally, “in early morning-moment”)
1649, Jacobus Petri Chronander, Bele-Snack, Eller Een Ny Comœdia, page 25:Hon är tigh bättre än Guld och Pärla,
Sitt hws achtar hon ärla och särla.- She is better than Gold and Pearl,
She attends to her house early and late.
- 1668, Georg Stiernhielm, Hercules line 1, in Musæ Suethizantes. Taken from Samlade skrifter av Georg Stiernhielm, 1973, J. Nordström and B. Olsson, Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet.
HERCULES arla stod vpp, en Morgon, i första sin Vngdom- Hercules arose early, one morning, at the beginning of his youth
- Antonym: särla
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