stengän

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse *stigna (“become so solid, that you can step thereon”), related to stíga.

Verb

stengän (preterite stengnä)

  1. (intransitive) solidify, cool, concrete, become tough; of flour. If the flour is good and not frozen, the dough or porridge will stengän well: otherwise it becomes watery[1]
    he djer a se bra, di där mjöle, he stegen so bra
    it swells and is heavy that flour, it thickens so well (when cooking porridge)

See also

References
  1. Rietz, Johan Ernst, “STENGÄN”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 672
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