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Swedish word of the day. Sandstrand. Beach. A few degrees warmer today, compared to my last visit back in March when there was still some ice out on the bay.
There I was crawling around on all fours at the beach. Trying to get a photo of this pine cone, because why not, when I heard a buggy driving towards me. It was two guys out cleaning the beach. They gave me a weird look for some reason.
Swedish word of the day, Klädnypa.
Sandra took a poetic photo of a Finnish clothespin,klädnypa, and here is my version.
It took the artist Ossian Eckerman one week to finish this new mural at Svartensgatan on Södermalm. Painted by hand, using 20 liters of paint. No spray paint here.
Today's word is timbrology. Learn more and see the rest of this week's words at: wordsmith.org/words/timbrology.html
Today's word is dialectic, from Greek dia- (between) + legein (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1382.
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/dialectic.html
19 October 2020.
English: Cup.
Irish: Cupán.
Finnish: Kuppi.
Please translate into your own language.
Examples:
Cuirfimíd braon bainne sa chupán agus cuirfimíd uisce tríd.
(We shall put a drop of milk in the cup and we shall add water to it.)
Tule, sanoi täti kahvia kuppeihin kaataessan.
(Come, said her aunt as she poured coffee into the cups.)
day 19.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 inch square.
Today's word is raven messenger. In the Bible, Noah sends a raven to go scout the scene, but the bird never returns to the ark. Earliest documented use: 1400. Also known as a corbie messenger.
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/raven_messenger.html
I don't know Gusten Persson. But he looks like a happy chap. So the unusual Swedish word of the day would be fönsterteknik. Window technology.
Swedish word of the day. Höghus.The Strato building at Ringvägen on Södermalm. Snapped from Skinnarviksberget.
Today's word is scrooch, a dialect variant scrouge (to squeeze or crowd), perhaps influenced by crouch. Earliest documented use: 1844.
Lean more about today's word at: wordsmith.org/words/scrooch.html
5 October 2020.
English: Daughter.
Irish: Iníon.
Finnish: Tytär.
day 5.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 inch square.
Translate into your own language in comments.
A tricky word to translate to English. It means that no one will sit here no more. The reason for that is that the bus terminus has closed for good.
Swedish word of the day. Gravsten. My paternal Grandparents and Great Grandparents are buried here at the cemetery at the medieval church in Västerhaninge.
27 October 2020.
English: I am able.
Irish: Is féidir liom.
Finnish: Osaan.
Please translate to your own language.
Examples:
Jos osaan kääntää subjektin ja objektin, niin sen jälkeen se ei ole niin vaikeaa.
(If I can translate the subject and the object then the rest is not that difficult.)
Íosfad mo dhóthain, nó oiread agus is féidir liom ar aon chuma.
(I shall eat enough, or as much as I am able, anyway.)
Tair go luath, más féidir leat é!
(Come early, if you can!)
Ba mhaith liom litir a scríobh, ach ní féidir liom peann d'fháil.
(I would like to write a letter but I cannot find a pen.)
Déarfad léi teacht más féidir léi i n-aon chor é.
(I shall tell her to come if she possibly can.)
day 27.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 1/2 inch square.
Made up Swedish word of the day. Soloros. A lone sunflower growing by the side of the Stavsvägen road in Tungelsta. For the last few years, the agricultural college at Berga planted sunflowers on both sides of the road here. If you picked a flower you were supposed to give 10SEK to The Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund, (using Swish). Which I thought was a great idea. Not sure why they gave up on that idea but they did. Oh, and the Sweidsh word for the Sunflower is Solros. Soloros here means a lone sunflower.
Second Swedish word of the day. Skogsdunge. During the warmer part of the year, you will sometimes see sheep there, as well as kids from the nearby pre-school. A little too cold for both those groups today.
Swedish word of the day. Gravsten. Headstone. My paternal grandfather's headstone at the cemetery in Västerhaninge. He died back in the late 1940s when my mother was still a young girl.
Swedish word of the day. Vindstilla. Finding a windless spot at Skinnarviksberget. On the other side of the hill, you have one of the best views over Stockholm.
Swedish word of the day. Fågeltorn. Bird watching tower. From my recent visit to the Sandemar nature reserve at Dalarö. Spotted many birds, including five White-tailed eagles and one Golden eagle.
7 October 2019.
English: Laziness
Irish: Leisce Welsh: Diogi
Finnish: Laiskuus Estonian: Laiskus
day 7.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 inch square.
1 October 2020.
English: Chair.
Irish: Cathaoir.
Finnish: Tuoli.
day 1.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 inch square.
Translate to your own language in comments.
30 October 2030.
English: I must.
Irish: Is éigean dom.
Finnish: Täytyy.
Please translate to your own language.
Examples:
Hänen täytyi lähteä kouluun.
(She had to set off for school)
"Is éigean dom fanacht mar tá rang ar siúl sa seomra."
(I must wait because there is a class going on in the room.)
(From comment on https//:www.mikesdipper.blogspot.com )
day 30.
rapidograph/adobe illustrator cs6.
3 1/2 inch square.