trebjørn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• trebjønn
• Træ-Biøn (Hans Jacob Wille, 1786)

Etymology

From tre (“tree”) +‎ bjørn (“bear”). May be a kind of avoidance speech similar to gråbein (“wolf”), buskefisk (“snake”), beinlaus (“wind”) etc.

Noun

trebjørn m (definite singular trebjørnen, indefinite plural trebjørnar, definite plural trebjørnane)

1. a squirrel, a rodent of the subfamily Sciurinae

Synonyms

• ekorn