rosemaler
/ˈɹoʊzəˌmɑlɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Vesterheim, the Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, […] sponsored a national exhibition of rosemaling in 1967 and began inviting Norwegian masters to the museum to give workshops to grassroots rosemalers."
Etymology
From rosemaling + -er; or borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaler, from rose (“rose”) + male (“to paint”) (cognate with Old Danish malæ (Danish male), Old Norse mála, Old Swedish mala (Swedish mala), from Middle Low German mālen (“to paint”)) + -er (“-er, suffix indicating a person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: rosemaler, mālen
- Suffix: rosemaling
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹoʊzəˌmɑlɚ/
- British English: /ˈɹəʊzəˌmɑːlə/
Usage
- American usage