fenäs

See also: fenas and fenes

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Middle voice of Old Norse féna (“grow.”)

Pronunciation

Verb

fenäs

  1. (middle, intransitive) Begin to germinate.[1][2]

References
  1. Lindgren, J. V., 1940, “*fenas sv. v. 1”, in Orbok över Burträskmålet, page 40
  2. Rietz, Johan Ernst, “FENÄS”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 135
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