See also: rav, råv, and ræv

Swedish

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en räv (rödräv (red fox))

Etymology

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From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Norse ᚱᛖᚹᚨᛉ (rewaʀ, brown).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /rɛːv/
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Noun

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  1. fox (mammal)
    Synonym: mickel ((name for a) fox)
    • 1891, “Det var dans bort i vägen [There was a dance down the road]”, Gustaf Fröding (lyrics), Helfrid Lambert (music)‎[1]performed by Sven-Ingvars:
      Och en räv stämde in i den lustiga låten, och en uv skrek uhu! ifrån Brynbärsbråten, och de märkte, de hörde det ej. Men uhu! hördes ekot i Getberget skria, och till svar på Nils Uttermans dudelidia, kom det dudeli dudeli dej!
      And a fox joined in the funny [more towards "comically amusing"] song [or maybe sound, in an archaic sense], and an owl cried uhu! [sic] from Brynbärsbråten [capitalized, so perhaps a place name – or perhaps raspberry [dialectal, Värmland] thicket [heap of twigs]], and they didn't notice it, they didn't hear it [and they noticed, they heard it not]. But uhu! the echo was heard screeching from Getberget [The goat mountain], and in response to Nils Utterman's "doddly deea," there came doodly doodly dey!
  2. an experienced (often as "gammal räv") and/or cunning person

Declension

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Declension of räv
nominative genitive
singular indefinite räv rävs
definite räven rävens
plural indefinite rävar rävars
definite rävarna rävarnas

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ räv in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

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