dísætur

Icelandic

Etymology

Possibly from Jutlandic (dialectal Danish) diesød (sickly sweet), with die meaning "to suckle",[1] so the original meaning possibly being "sweet as a mother's milk".[2]

Adjective

dísætur (not comparable)

  1. tasting very sweet

Inflection

References

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