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Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zuliŋ (“cross-eyed”), compare Tagalog duling.
Pronunciation
Adjective
juling (Jawi spelling جوليڠ)
- crosseyed (having both eyes oriented inward, especially involuntarily)
Further reading
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From verb jula (more common as jula opp (“beat up”)). Attested by Aasen. Also, attested as hiuling by Jacob Nicolai Wilse in 1780 in his dictionary of Spydeberg dialect.
According to Nynorsk Dictionary, from Old Norse gyrða, whence also gyrda and gjorda (shift of /rð/ into /l/ is common in many Norwegian dialects and sometimes made its way into standard spelling, like e.g. støl (“stiff in muscles”), and therefrom further into dialects, which do not have this feature).
Noun
juling f (definite singular julinga, indefinite plural julingar, definite plural julingane)
- beat (striking of another person)
- Synonyms: bank, pryl, stryk
Det er på tide gje han juling snart- It’s time to beat him up soon
Derived terms
References
- “juling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “juling” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring