sveitte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (sweat (noun)): sveite (pre-1938)
• (sweat (noun and verb)): svåttå (Trøndelag)
• (blood): sveitti (Trøndelag) (Snåsa)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-.

Noun

sveitte m (definite singular sveitten, uncountable)

1. sweat
2. blood of a butchered animal

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sveitast, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”).

Alternative forms

• sveitta

Verb

sveitte (present tense sveittar, past tense sveitta, past participle sveitta, passive infinitive sveittast, present participle sveittande, imperative sveitte/sveitt)

1. to sweat

References

• “sveitte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “sveite” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
• Nikolai Kristian Kjenstad (1993), Snåsamålet (in Norwegian), page 136