More unusual Danish words

Posted on July 9, 2022

I have previously written about unusual Danish words. Here are a few more.

angstskrig: As noted the Danish word listed in Den Danske Ordbog with most consecutive consonants: ngstskr. Words that have six consecutive consonants in Wikidata are pattebarnssprog, hårdbundsstruktur and sagsbehandlingsskridt, rnsspr, ndsstr and ngsskr, according to a Wikidata Query Service search. They are all compounds. gesandtskab and bekendtskab are non-compound words with five consecutive consonants.

detailplanlægning: The first part of the compound is detajle, but in the compound it has a different form. Den Danske Ordbog has both detailplanlægning and detaljeplanlægning. Den Danske Ordbog does not have detail as a separate word, – only as the prefix detail-.

druk: A noun with an unclear grammatical gender as no article is usually used for the word. Den Danske Ordbog records it as either common gender or neutrum.

mødre: plural of moder, but also of the short form mor. In Wikidata, it was originally entered (probably by me) as two separate lexemes, but they are now merged to a single lexeme.

niveauet/niveauer/niveauerne: Inflections of the Danish word niveau and they have the most consecutive vowels – found so far by searching with Wikidata Query Service.

tippe: Den Danske Ordbog regards this verb as two lexemes: 1 and 2. They are both recorded as coming from English. Likewise are the derived noun tipning also regarded as two lexemes. The Retsskrivningsordbogen only has one tippe.