mångata
Appearance
See also: manĝata
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]måne (“moon”) + gata (“street, road”), known at least since 1890.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mångata c
- the roadlike reflection of moonlight on water
- 1893, Hjalmar Söderberg, Margot:
- Nybrovikens tjocka och stilla vatten speglade en bred, glimmande mångata i oljiga ringlar, och utmed kajen reste skutorna en gles och orörlig skog af master och tackling.
- The thick and still water of Nybroviken [a bay in Stockholm] reflected a broad, glimmering mångata in oily serpents, and along the quay the ships raised a sparse and immobile forest of masts and rigging.
- 2014, Astrid Lindgren, Nya hyss av Emil i Lönneberga [New Mischief by Emil], Stockholm Text, →ISBN:
- Tvärs över sjön gick en bred, blank mångata, men inne kring stränderna stod mörkret svart. För nu var det natt och nu var det slut på den 28 juli.
- Across the lake ran a broad, still mångata, but in around the shores there was black darkness [darkness stood black]. For now it was night, and now the 28th of July had come to an end.
Declension
[edit]Declension of mångata