rälig
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish räþelīker, from Old Norse hræðiligr. Cognate to Danish Danish ræddelig and Icelandic hræðilegur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛːlɪ(ɡ)/
Adjective
rälig (comparative räligare, superlative räligast)
- (dialectal, Southern Sweden) nasty, scary, ugly, disgusting
- 2008, “Lättuggat – men ingen rälig gegga [Easy to chew - but no nasty mush]”, in Sydsvenskan:
- Han har sett lättuggad mat serveras, som varit allt annat än rolig. – Det enda som gällde var puré som man mixade till en rälig gegga.
- He has seen easily chewed food, which has been anything but fun. – The only thing on the menu was a purée that you mixed into a nasty mush.
- 2010, Therese Thomasson, “Korsning vid Särslöv farlig [Junction by Särslöv dangerous]”, in Sydsvenskan:
- Det är en rälig korsning. Speciellt om man kommer från Staffanstorpshållet, då ser man inte korsningen förrän man är mitt i den[…]
- It is a scary junction. Especially if you’re coming from Staffanstorp, in which case you don’t see the junction until you’re in the middle of it[…]
- 2011, Martin Andersson, “Små barn på historisk mark [Small children on historical ground]”, in Sydsvenskan:
- Mord, avrättningar, krig, häxor, pest, råttor och smuts. Det medeltida Malmö var en rälig plats.
- Murder, executions, war, witches, plague, rats and dirt. Medieval Malmö was a nasty place.
Declension
| Inflection of rälig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | rälig | räligare | räligast |
| Neuter singular | räligt | räligare | räligast |
| Plural | räliga | räligare | räligast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | rälige | räligare | räligaste |
| All | räliga | räligare | räligaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. | |||
Related terms
- rädas
- rädd
References
- Rälig. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 17 October 2013.
- rälig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
- Ärlig, ärlig