dristig
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German drîstich, from drîste + -ich, from Old Saxon thrīsti, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīstī. By surface analysis, drista + -ig.
Declension
| Inflection of dristig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | dristig | dristigare | dristigast |
| Neuter singular | dristigt | dristigare | dristigast |
| Plural | dristiga | dristigare | dristigast |
| Masculine plural3 | dristige | dristigare | dristigast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | dristige | dristigare | dristigaste |
| All | dristiga | dristigare | dristigaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
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References
- dristig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- dristig in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- dristig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- dristig in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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