Why?

I haven’t been too active lately with the Norwegian blog, mostly because of the usal lame excuse regarding time and too much work and all that. One thing I have been doing lately is reading, or at least trying to read the Chris Ryan book “Blodpenger”, and during this reading several words crop up that are interesting – but which I forget way too quickly.

Hopefully by sharing some of them here, it will help me to remember, and also give me a quick reference point for when I inevitably forget again!

Some words – from prologue and chapter 1

• Sylige – visible
• Stram – tight (fingrene var stram)
• Forvridd – contorted, mangled, twisted (På ringfingeren satt en forvridd gullring)
• Dugg – dew
• Grundigere – thoughtfully
• Bøye – bend (han bøyde seg = he bent over)
• Tilhøre – belong to (måtte ha tilørt en kvinne)
• Halvannen – one and a half
• en Grop ( a ditch)
• Peste – panted (den peste mens den løp)
• Ryggsøyle – spine
• Mistanke – suspicion
• Nøyaktig – precisely
• Gjørmete – muddy
• Gned – rubbed
• Slør – veil
• Blikk – look, glance (hun løftet blikket)
• Lynraskt – very quickly, blazingly, “at light speed”
• Påføre – cause, bring upon
• Som ventet – as expected (den var som ventet)
• Ifølge – according to
• Somle – faff, dawdle, time waste
• Myke halsen – stiff neck
• Klesplagg – Garment, Item of clothing (et nytt klesplagg)
• Øreflippen – the earlobe
• Slikket – licked
• Åndsfraværende – vacantly (Han slikket øreflippen hennes åndsfraværende)
• Ånd – spirit, Fraværende – absent
• Bekymret – worried, concerned (det som bekymret ham)
• Fortjener – deserve
• Halvt fordervet – half to death (han slo henne halv fordervet)
• Tillatelse – permission

And that’s not even the whole chapter…