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ratljóst

ratato find one's way

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ljóstlight, bright

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way-finding light

which everyone uses to mean just enough daylight left to find your way home

weather · abstract

Literal glosses are a translator’s liberty, not a rule. This compound may have frozen centuries ago, with its pieces drifting since. If it is wrong, a correction from an Icelandic speaker is the whole point.

Timo Zuther · Impressum · Privacy