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snickare.

a carpenter (woodworker)

8 characters3 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsnɪkˌarɛ/
  1. a carpenter (woodworker)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Swedish snitkare, snidhkare, from Middle Low German sniddeker, snidker, snicker. Cognate of Danish snedker and Norwegian Bokmål snekker. By surface analysis, snicka + -are. The dialectal verb snicka is from Old Swedish snikka, from Old Norse *sníðka, from sníða (from whence also snida).

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