söttmän
Westrobothnian
Etymology
Compare Old Danish søtme; derived from søt (“sweet”).
Verb
söttmän (preterite söttmä)
- sweeten: also said of porridge or bread-dough of flour, which has been damaged by frost; such dough will singän or stengän
Alternative forms
- söttän
References
- Rietz, Johan Ernst, “söttmän”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 719