morot

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morot

1. person, human being, man

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

From Old Swedish mororot, moro rot, calque of Middle Low German morwortel (“carrot”), from more + wortel.^[1] Cf. German Möhre.

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morot c

1. carrot

   knapra på en morot

   nibble on a carrot

   Kaniner gillar morötter

   Rabbits like carrots

2. (figurative) incentive

   piska och morot

   carrot and stick [whip] (idiomatic)

• morotskaka (“carrot cake”)

• morot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• morot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• motor