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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

abengslig.

unreasonable, wrong

9 characters3 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

adj/aˈbɛŋʃlɪ//aˈbɛŋslɪ/

  1. unreasonable, wrong

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Where this word comes from

First part from various Norwegian dialectal words; avbendes, avbendeleg, avbendelege (“hard to reach, backwards, detachable, unwieldy, overweight”). Last part -lig (“-le, -ly”) from Old Norse -ligr (“-y, -ly, -like”), from Proto-Germanic *-līkaz (“-like, -ly”), from *līką (“body; corpse, dead body”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“similar, like; image, likeness”).

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