Noun: svalgang
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | svalgang |
| Pl. | svalgangar |
Definite
| Sg. | svalgangen |
| Pl. | svalgangane |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like svalgang
bernhardin,
billettautomat,
røykdukkar,
krøpling,
symbal,
synops,
synsar,
syklon,
syklus,
swazilendar,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
serbar,
server,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
setjar,
settar,
sefard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From sval + gang. Cognate with Swedish svalgång and Danish svalegang. Literally, “cool passage” by surface analysis, but Den Danske Ordbog derives its Danish cognate from Old Norse svalar (“beams”), which explains origin of the -e- in Danish, but it is a rare noun in Old Norse itself (probably same as in Old Norse svalaskip).
2. The Swedish Academic Dictionary derives the Swedish cognate from sval (“traditional wall construction”), probably related to sval (“cool”), and dialectal Danish svale (“extra wall”) and Norwegian Nynorsk sval f (“loggia”). See: Danish Nouns '
svalegang', Old Norse Nouns '
svalar'.
Verbs referencing "svalgang"
Danish Nouns
svalegang.
Translations