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frokost.

breakfast; the first meal of the day, usually eaten early in the day

7 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/¹fruːˌkɔst/[ˈfrùːˌkɔ̌st]
  1. breakfast; the first meal of the day, usually eaten early in the day

    masculine
    spise en lett frokost
  2. breakfast; the first meal of the day, usually eaten early in the day the food served or eaten at breakfast

    masculine
    få frokost på sengen
  3. breakfast; the first meal of the day, usually eaten early in the day the time at which breakfast is eaten; the early part of the morning

    masculine
    De banket på døra rundt frokost.
  4. lunch; a light meal eaten around midday, especially when referring to Danish customs

    archaic · masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Middle Low German vrōkost (“early meal”), from vrō (“early”) + kost (“food, meal”), literally “early meal”. In Norwegian–Danish, the word was introduced through Hanseatic Low German influence during the 16th century. Norwegian and Swedish retained the meaning “morning meal”, while Danish developed from “morning meal” through “second breakfast” and an intermediate meal to its modern meaning “lunch”. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk frukost, Swedish frukost (“breakfast”) and Danish frokost (“lunch”), as well as Latvian brokastis (“breakfast”), likewise borrowed from Middle Low German. The first element is cognate with German früh and Dutch vroeg (“early”).

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