sjau

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃæʉ̯/, /ʃœʉ̯/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch.

Noun

sjau m (definite singular sjauen, indefinite plural sjauar, definite plural sjauane)

hard, toilsome work
fuss, noise

Verb

sjau

imperative of sjaue

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sjau, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Numeral

sjau

(dialectal, non-standard since 1901)seven
Synonym: sju

References

“sjau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Ivar Aasen (1850), “sjau”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Anagrams

sjua

Old Norse

**Old Norse numbers ^(edit)**
	70^{[a], [b]}
← 6	7	8 →
Cardinal: sjau Ordinal: sjaundi

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sebun (whence also Old English seofon, Old High German sibun, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌽 (sibun)), from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Numeral

sjau

(cardinal number) seven

Descendants

Icelandic: sjö
Faroese: sjey
Norwegian Bokmål: sju
Norwegian Nynorsk: sju, sjau (dialectal)
Old Swedish: siu
- Swedish: sju
Old Danish: siu
- Danish: syv
  - Norwegian Bokmål: syv
Old Gutnish: siau

References

“sjau”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press