svæsinn
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Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]svæsinn (comparative svæsnari, superlative svæsnastur)
- ferocious
- coarse, blunt, obscene (describing a story or some other work)
- a severe bout of an illness
- svæsin matareitrun ― severe food poisoning
Declension
[edit]This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
[edit]- “svæsinn” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)