svalegang

Danish

Etymology

Compound of svale +‎ gang, where svale is probably from Old Norse svalar (“beams, logs”), but according to Swedish Academic Dictionary, from dialectal Danish svale (“loggia wall”), corresponding to Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk sval.

Cognate with Swedish svalgång and Norwegian Nynorsk svalgang.

Noun

svalegang c (singular definite svalegangen, plural indefinite svalegange)

  1. (architecture) somewhat similar to a loggia

Declension

Declension of svalegang
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative svalegang svalegangen svalegange svalegangene
genitive svalegangs svalegangens svaleganges svalegangenes

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