Where does “skjønnlitteratur” come from?

skjønnlitteratur (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn, from Low German schone.

skjønnlitteratur (Norwegian Nynorsk): fiction, imaginative literature, belles-lettres

Definitions

  1. fiction, imaginative literature, belles-lettres

Ancestry of “skjønnlitteratur”, step by step

skjønnlitteratur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Nynorskskjønnbeautiful; imperative of skjønna
2Low Germanschone—

via Norwegian Nynorsk litteratur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Nynorsklitteraturliterature
Every word from Low German schone →Every word from Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn →
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