majel.
a traditional soup from Valdres, made with fresh and/or salted meat, potatoes, root vegetables, and usually peas or barley
Meaning & usage
a traditional soup from Valdres, made with fresh and/or salted meat, potatoes, root vegetables, and usually peas or barley
Where this word comes from
A dialectal reduction of matgjerd (“food preparation; meat-and-vegetable soup”), from mat (“food”) + gjerd (“act of making, preparation”). The second element is inherited from Old Norse gerð (“act, action; making”), a nominal derivative of gera (“to do, make”). The regional spellings majjæl and maiijæl more closely reflect the traditional pronunciation in Hallingdal, while majel is the usual modern written form in Valdres.
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