Only a few of the temperature references on the right side are possible to translate, as the rest use terms from the local dialect, unknown to those not born here.
Only a few of the temperature references on the right side are possible to translate, as the rest use terms from the…
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To Dutch I get quite far, especially with a bit of imagination. Via Dutch, I get to English.
ovheitt -> oven heet -> oven hot
kokheitt -> kokend heet -> cooking hot
steikheitt -> vlees? heet -> steak/baking hot
brennheitt -> brandend heet -> burning hot
heitt -> heet -> hot
fjelgt -> fijn -> nice
mjølkeflødde -> ? -> ?
løfsetøyr -> ? -> ?
varmegrade -> ? -> ?
frostnæme -> vriezend -> freezing
kaldsnekje -> koude nek -> cold neck
naglebit -> nagelbijtend -> nail biting
gnalljefrost -> huilend vorst -> wining frost
beinkaldt -> koud tot op het bot -> cold to the bone
smellkaldt -> ruikend? koud -> smelling? cold
meinkjyld -> ? koud -> ? cold
skadekjyld -> vorst schade -> frost damage
Skade = damage. As in deadly?
Diana Studer why deadly?
Got a similar one in Swabian dialect 😊
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers I am impressed with your local Norwegian dialect skills, Jeroen! 🙂
Diana Studer Skade = Injury
Lars Fosdal thanks. But in reading, Scandinavic languages, German, Dutch and especially Frisian aren’t that far apart (;
Pronunciation though is a totally different thing…
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers because injury at that end of the thermometer, sounds deadly to me – in a climate that doesn’t do minus temperatures.
I was going from German Schaden
Diana Studer ah now I get it. No it’s general injury, not deadly (and now I think of the very similar Dutch/German verongelukt/verunglückt where the Dutch is always deadly – when talking about people – but the German usually is just an accident – deadly would be tödlich verunglückt – I get the confusion even better. To add to the confusion: when using verongelukt for things, it just means accident: http://taaladvies.net/taal/advies/vraag/1081/verongelukken_een_ongeluk_hebben/)
school Afrikaans, 10 years of Swiss German, and bits of Dutch here on G+ leaves me a little confused and grateful that English is my first language.
Grüessech Diana Studer, that’s a one hell of a combination.
It doesn’t help that I’m partially wordblind, learned to speak (not write!) German when I was young and only learned to speak+write English at 12+ and write German at 13+. That makes up for some gruesome errors every now and then (:
(so long as we can make ourselves understood … who needs perfect?)