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There are several Scottish words I grew up using which are easily traceable to Swedish: - Scottish = English = Swedish - bairn = child = barn - flitting = mo
by willmacdonald 8y ago
There are several Scottish words I grew up using which are easily traceable to Swedish:
- Scottish = English = Swedish
- bairn = child = barn
- flitting = move house = flytt
- greeting = cry = gråt
- binbag 8y agoAlso 'braw' in scots, or 'bra' in swedish, which both mean 'good'. Picked this up while watching The Bridge... there are others as well.
- Symbiote 8y ago"To flit" is also standard English, although more specific than the Scots use. It suggests a very small thing moving or fluttering, like a bird or insect.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoIt also means to escape and to leave suddenly, perhaps to avoid paying a bill or to avoid arrest, as in "He's done a flit". I come from the south west of England and flit was a perfectly ordinary word though not used in the RP register.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoNorse or perhaps Norrønt, not Swedish. The modern Scandinavian languages diverged later. And anyway most of the Scandinavians in Scotland were surely Norwegian not Swedish.