sykne

sykne (present tense sykner, past tense sykna or syknet, past participle sykna or syknet)

1. alternative form of sjukne

• synke, ynkes

• sykn, sykna

From Middle Norwegian sykna, from the first part of the Old Norse phrase sykn dagr (“working day”), sykn, likely meaning “innocent”. Compare modern Icelandic adjective sýkn. The sense of a working day might come from a notion that working on Sundays or other holidays was considered wrongful, but that working on other days bore with it a proper innocence.

• IPA^(key): /²sʏk.nə/

sykne f (definite singular sykna, uncountable)

1. (collective) working days, weekdays

   Synonyms: vyrke, yrke

   • 1907, Jens Hæreid, Norigs nyare soga (etter 1814), Kristiania: Aschehoug, page 65:

     paa militærverkstaderne arbeidde dei dag og natt, helg og sykna.

     they worked in the military factories day and night, weekend and weekday.

• syknedag

• “sykne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Eskeland, Lars (1948) “sykn(e)”, in Norsk rettskrivings-ordbok [Norwegian Orthographic Dictionary] (in Norwegian Nynorsk)
• Skard, Matias (1901) “sykna [ỳ], ei”, in Landsmaals-ordlista med rettleiding um skrivemaaten (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Kristiania: Aschehoug

• skyne, ynske