See lussinatt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "nn", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*lewk-" }, "expansion": "", "name": "root" }, { "args": { "1": "nn", "2": "Lussi", "3": "natt", "t2": "night" }, "expansion": "Lussi + natt (“night”)", "name": "af" }, { "args": { "1": "nn", "2": "la", "3": "-", "nocat": "1" }, "expansion": "Latin", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "nn", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "-", "nocat": "1" }, "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "From Lussi + natt (“night”). The first part was a norwegianized form of the Latin name Lucia (“Lucy”), after the 4th century Sicilian martyr Saint Lucy. However, in Norwegian folklore, Lussi came to refer to a wight, who would wreak havoc on the night of the winter solstice, as in the Julian calendar which was used at the time, winter solstice fell on Saint Lucy's. Due to her oft malignant nature, some have proposed a connection to Lucifer as an etymological influence.\nEither name is related to lux (“light”), ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk-.", "forms": [ { "form": "lussinatta", "tags": [ "definite", "singular" ] }, { "form": "lussinetter", "tags": [ "indefinite", "plural" ] }, { "form": "lussinettene", "tags": [ "definite", "plural" ] } ], "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "lang_code": "nn", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 2 entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "nn", "name": "Christianity", "orig": "nn:Christianity", "parents": [ "Abrahamism", "Religion", "Culture", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "nn", "name": "Folklore", "orig": "nn:Folklore", "parents": [ "Culture", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "eve of, night before the Day of Saint Lucy, December 13th, in folklore thought to be the longest night of the year" ], "id": "en-lussinatt-nn-noun-Njfn5fHp", "links": [ [ "Christianity", "Christianity" ], [ "folklore", "folklore" ], [ "eve", "eve" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Christianity, folklore) eve of, night before the Day of Saint Lucy, December 13th, in folklore thought to be the longest night of the year" ], "related": [ { "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "lussekatt" }, { "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "lussimess" }, { "word": "lucienatt" }, { "tags": [ "Bokmål" ], "word": "lucinatt" } ], "tags": [ "feminine" ], "topics": [ "Christianity", "arts", "folklore", "history", "human-sciences", "literature", "media", "publishing", "sciences" ] } ], "word": "lussinatt" }
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "nn", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "*lewk-" }, "expansion": "", "name": "root" }, { "args": { "1": "nn", "2": "Lussi", "3": "natt", "t2": "night" }, "expansion": "Lussi + natt (“night”)", "name": "af" }, { "args": { "1": "nn", "2": "la", "3": "-", "nocat": "1" }, "expansion": "Latin", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "nn", "2": "ine-pro", "3": "-", "nocat": "1" }, "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "From Lussi + natt (“night”). The first part was a norwegianized form of the Latin name Lucia (“Lucy”), after the 4th century Sicilian martyr Saint Lucy. However, in Norwegian folklore, Lussi came to refer to a wight, who would wreak havoc on the night of the winter solstice, as in the Julian calendar which was used at the time, winter solstice fell on Saint Lucy's. Due to her oft malignant nature, some have proposed a connection to Lucifer as an etymological influence.\nEither name is related to lux (“light”), ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk-.", "forms": [ { "form": "lussinatta", "tags": [ "definite", "singular" ] }, { "form": "lussinetter", "tags": [ "indefinite", "plural" ] }, { "form": "lussinettene", "tags": [ "definite", "plural" ] } ], "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "lang_code": "nn", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "lussekatt" }, { "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "lussimess" }, { "word": "lucienatt" }, { "tags": [ "Bokmål" ], "word": "lucinatt" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Norwegian Nynorsk compound terms", "Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header", "Norwegian Nynorsk eponyms", "Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns", "Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas", "Norwegian Nynorsk nouns", "Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European", "Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk-", "Pages with 2 entries", "Pages with entries", "nn:Christianity", "nn:Folklore" ], "glosses": [ "eve of, night before the Day of Saint Lucy, December 13th, in folklore thought to be the longest night of the year" ], "links": [ [ "Christianity", "Christianity" ], [ "folklore", "folklore" ], [ "eve", "eve" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Christianity, folklore) eve of, night before the Day of Saint Lucy, December 13th, in folklore thought to be the longest night of the year" ], "tags": [ "feminine" ], "topics": [ "Christianity", "arts", "folklore", "history", "human-sciences", "literature", "media", "publishing", "sciences" ] } ], "word": "lussinatt" }
Download raw JSONL data for lussinatt meaning in Norwegian Nynorsk (2.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Norwegian Nynorsk dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.