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syssel.

employment, occupation, enterprise (especially a quiet, non-binding, or less strenuous task)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈsysəl]
  1. employment, occupation, enterprise (especially a quiet, non-binding, or less strenuous task)

    common-gender
  2. geographical area that constituted an administrative unit, originally about each of the 14 areas Jutland was divided into until the 16th century, later also about a district on the Faroe Islands, Iceland or Greenland

    common-gender · historical
Where this word comes from

From Old Danish sysæl, syslæ, from Old Norse sýsl, Proto-Germanic *seuhslō, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-. Compare Old English susl.

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