fask

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• fasch (Mooring, Goesharde)
• Fesk (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian fisk. Cognates include West Frisian fisk.

Noun

fask m (plural fasker)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) fish

Derived terms

• heifask (“shark”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From verb faske/faska.

Noun

fask n (definite singular fasket, uncountable)

1. (Nordmøre) meat burried by a bear
2. (Nord-Gudbrandsdalen) layer of soil, leafs and twigs, which covers the meat burried by a bear

References

• “fask”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.
• Tor Erik Jenstad; Arnold Dalen (2002), Trønderordboka (in Norwegian)