retning.
direction
Meaning & usage
direction
movement, school (in art or ideas)
correction, marking, grading (of a written assignment)
Where this word comes from
From rette + -ning, formally from Old Norse rétting (“adjustment”), but influenced semantically by Middle Low German richtening, German Richtung (“direction”). Swedish riktning (“direction”) is borrowed from Low German.
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