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lefse.

lefse; a soft, unleavened Norwegian flatbread, often spread with butter and sugar or served with savoury food

5 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/²lɛf.sə/[ˈlɛ̂f.sə̌]
  1. lefse; a soft, unleavened Norwegian flatbread, often spread with butter and sugar or served with savoury food

    feminine · masculine
    Til jul er det lefse med sylte.
  2. a thick, loose, worn, or untidy book, booklet, or stack of papers

    feminine · figuratively · masculine
    Boka er blitt en lefse.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Norse *leifsa (“flatbread”), probably an s-derivative of hleifr (“loaf, bread”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“loaf, bread”); compare leiv (“rolled-out piece of flatbread or lefse; thick slice of bread”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk lefse, Swedish dialectal läfsa and Shetlandic lefsi (“lefse”). The base hleifr is cognate with English loaf.

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