General term for several child diseases, especially the rickets.
çekim: tamlayan ältas
köken: According to Nationalencyklopedins ordbok, the noun definition is attested since 1635, originally meaning "something". The verb comes from the Old Swedish ælta (“to drive, to hunt; to stir, to knead”), from Old Norse elta (“to drive, hunt, knead”), from Proto-Germanic *alatjaną (“to drive, move”), related to Ancient Greek ἐλαύνω (elaúnō, “to drive”).
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