Hva betyr plantenavna tyttebær og krekling?
In Norwegian, cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea is called «tyttebær» and crowberry Empetrum nigrum, «krekling». The berries are edible, but cowberries are sour and crowberries are tasteless, and probably both names are pejorative in a humorous way. The prefix in «tyttebær» is a nickname which means wom...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Norwegian Bokmål |
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Norsk Botanisk Forening
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2564150 |
| Summary: | In Norwegian, cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea is called «tyttebær» and crowberry Empetrum nigrum, «krekling». The berries are edible, but cowberries are sour and crowberries are tasteless, and probably both names are pejorative in a humorous way. The prefix in «tyttebær» is a nickname which means woman who is fussing and talking continuously, while «krekling» means weakling, poor creature. publishedVersion |
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