väsa

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse *vesa, formally identical to Middle High German (ver)wësen (“spoil, perish”), cf. Old English weornian (“spoil”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *wis- (“rot, decay”), the basis for Ancient Greek ῑ̓ός (īós), Latin virus (“poison”), Icelandic visinn (“withered”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Burträsk) IPA^(key): [ʋɛ̀ːsɐ]
Rhymes: -ɛ̀ːsɐ

Verb

väsa

To be idle, good-for-nothing.

References

↑ Institutet för språk och folkminnen (1891) Svenska landsmål och Svenskt folkliv, page 86-87

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