hvorlunde

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

By surface analysis, hvor (“how, where”) +‎ lunde (“manner, way”). Compare ingenlunde (“in no way”).

Adverb

hvorlunde

  1. (Riksmål, archaic) how
    • 1915, Sigrid Undset, Fortællinger om Kong Artur og ridderne av det runde bord:
      Saa fortæller Hektor, hvorlunde Merlin bragte Artur til ham som et spædt barn. Men gutten graater bitterlig, da han hører, at Hektor er ikke hans far.
      Then Ector tells of how Merlin brought Arthur to him as a tender child. But the boy cries bitterly as he hears that Ector is not his father.

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