sykne

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

sykne (present tense sykner, past tense sykna or syknet, past participle sykna or syknet)

1. alternative form of sjukne

Anagrams

• synke, ynkes

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sykn, sykna

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian sykna, from the first part of the Old Norse phrase sykn dagr (“working day”), sykn, likely meaning “innocent”. Compare modern Icelandic adjective sýkn. The sense of a working day might come from a notion that working on Sundays or other holidays was considered wrongful, but that working on other days bore with it a proper innocence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²sʏk.nə/

Noun

sykne f (definite singular sykna, uncountable)

1. (collective) working days, weekdays

   Synonyms: vyrke, yrke

   • 1907, Jens Hæreid, Norigs nyare soga (etter 1814), Kristiania: Aschehoug, page 65:

     paa militærverkstaderne arbeidde dei dag og natt, helg og sykna.

     they worked in the military factories day and night, weekend and weekday.

Derived terms

• syknedag

References

• “sykne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Eskeland, Lars (1948) “sykn(e)”, in Norsk rettskrivings-ordbok [Norwegian Orthographic Dictionary] (in Norwegian Nynorsk)
• Skard, Matias (1901) “sykna [ỳ], ei”, in Landsmaals-ordlista med rettleiding um skrivemaaten (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Kristiania: Aschehoug

Anagrams

• skyne, ynske