rangsøles

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From rang +‎ -søles. The last part is from sol with adverb suffix -s (like in andføttes, compare also Swedish -s). First attested in 1646 by Christen Jensøn, later also attested by Søren Fermann in his Tinn dialect glossary from ca. 1760 and by Søren Richart Hagerup probably in Surnadal in the 1770-s.

Adverb

rangsøles

  1. in opposite direction from the sun; eastward
  2. from right to left
  3. in opposite order

Synonyms

References

  • “rangsøles”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
  • Oddvar Nes (1994). Ei ordsamling frå Tinn, published in Helsing til Lars Vassenden.
  • Torleiv Hannaas (1915), Ældre norske Sprogminder : Christen Jensøns Den Norske Dictionarium (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 63
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