a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents · goblin, leprechaun, gnome, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, gremlin, hobgoblin · charisma (the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm)
çekim: çoğul duendes
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). Compare Sicilian donni di casa. See more at dueño.
köken: Possibly already from Middle Dutch. Equivalent to a compound of koof (from Middle Dutch kove, from Old Dutch *kovo, from Proto-Germanic *kubô (“hut, shed”)) and a less certain second element that might be hou (“friendly, favorable disposition”). Related to German Kobold. For sense 2, compare with English brownie/Brownie (“a junior Girl Scout, a junior Girl Guide”).
a small human-like creature in Nordic folklore that lives on farmsteads and watches over their inhabitants; a brownie, a gnome. · Santa Claus · a person who behaves irresponsibly, oddly or incompetently
köken: Attested since 1790 according to Svenska Akademiens ordbok. An elliptic form of tomtebisse or tomtegubbe with the same meaning. Derived from tomt (“site; lot; garden”). The association between the mythological creature and Santa Claus had its origins in the 19th century (first attestation is from 1864) and was firmly established in the middle of the 20th century. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk…
aile: ha tomtar på loftet, tomta, tomtedräkt, tomtegröt
Om tomten inte får en klick smör i sin julgröt kan han bli arg och göra stor skada.
Moster Agneta klädde ut sig till tomte och delade ut klappar till barnen.
Vad är det för tomte som har slängt mina kläder i snön?