hylsa
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Hülse. Compare origin of hölja.
Noun
[edit]hylsa c
- case, casing
- ferrule
- (botany) shell, hull
- (glassblowing) a glass attached to a glassblower pipe and shaped as a funnel. When attached to a top of another glass, which sits on the end of a punty, it is heated and widened on its end, so it becomes the upper edge of the finished glass product.
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | hylsa | hylsas |
| definite | hylsan | hylsans | |
| plural | indefinite | hylsor | hylsors |
| definite | hylsorna | hylsornas |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hylsa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “hylsa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “hylsa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- hylsa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)