This week's pick isn't as easily recognizable as being of German origin as some of the others I have presented here. In Norwegian, bursdag means birthday - a bastardized version of Geburtstag. They also use two longer versions, geburtsdag (Norwegian Bokmål) and gebursdag (Norwegian Nynorsk), both of which are almost identical to the original German. (Yes, the Norwegians have two (written) languages - more about this here.)
For those of you who read Norwegian, here's an interesting article about how the different Norwegian versions of Geburtstag came about.
The image is from www.hermon.no.
For those of you who read Norwegian, here's an interesting article about how the different Norwegian versions of Geburtstag came about.
The image is from www.hermon.no.
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