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Deverbal from basla (“to toil, to work hard; to live in poverty”).
basl n (genitive singular basls, nominative plural bösl)
- toil, drudgery
- Synonyms: puð, baks, strit, erfiði, púl, streð
- poverty, destitution
- Synonyms: fátækt, örbirgð
Declension of basl (neuter)
