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dädan

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See also: Dadan, dadán, dádàn, and dàdǎn

Swedish

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From Old Swedish þæþan, from Old Norse þaðan.

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dädan (not comparable)

  1. (dated) thence, therefrom, from there, away (from there)
    • 1641 – 1724, Urban Hjärne, Actæon som såg Diana:
      Actæon som såg Diana
      naken, wändes till en hiort,
      Måste efter hiortens wana
      tädan löpa strax och fort.
      Actaeon who saw Diana naked,
      was turned into a hart (stag),
      And had, like the hart’s custom,
      to run away swiftly at once.
    • 1905, Jensen, Alfred, Tsardömet vid skiljovägen:
      Han hade kommit till Sibirien såsom en af liberala västerländska idéer något smittad Saulus, men återvände dädan såsom en panslavistisk, ortodoxt ödmjuk Paulus.
      He had come to Siberia as one by liberal western ideas somewhat infected Saul, but returned from there as a panslavic, orthodoxly humble Paul.

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