ömsom
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Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish ymsom, from ýmsum, dative plural form of Old Norse ýmiss. Attested in the form umisum on the Rök runestone.
Adverb
[edit]ömsom
- (usually repeated) sometimes, alternately, by turns (in one set of instances (that alternate (and contrast) with other instances))
- Spelet är ömsom alldeles för lätt, ömsom fullständigt omöjligt
- The game is sometimes far too easy and sometimes completely impossible
- Jag blev ömsom rörd, ömsom äcklad och ömsom förbannad av filmen
- I was alternately touched, disgusted, and angered by the movie
- ömsom vin, ömsom vatten
- both good and bad elements ("sometimes wine, sometimes water" – idiomatic)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- om vartannat
- växelvis (“alternately”)
References
[edit]- ömsom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- ömsom in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- ömse in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- ymsom in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:2. Þ(TH)-Ö