tjorre

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from kiosk by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare flaska > flarra (“bottle”) and smaskig > smarrig (“yummy, tasty”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɕɔrɛ/

Noun

tjorre c

  1. (colloquial) kiosk
    Synonym: kiosk

Declension

Declension of tjorre
nominative genitive
singular indefinite tjorre tjorres
definite tjorren tjorrens
plural indefinite tjorrar tjorrars
definite tjorrarna tjorrarnas

References

  • Per Ledin (28 March 2013) “Glad pårre igen!”, in På svenska‎[1] (Blog), archived from the original on 26 September 2020
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