räv

From Old Norse refr, from Proto-Norse ᚱᛖᚹᚨᛉ (rewaʀ, “brown”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /rɛːv/

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1. a fox (a mammal)

   Synonym: mickel (“(name for a) fox”)

   • 1891, “Det var dans bort i vägen [There was a dance down the road]”, Gustaf Fröding (lyrics), Helfrid Lambert (music), performed by Sven-Ingvars:

     Och en räv stämde in i den lustiga låten, och en uv skrek uhu! ifrån Brynbärsbråten, och de märkte, de hörde det ej. Men uhu! hördes ekot i Getberget skria, och till svar på Nils Uttermans dudelidia, kom det dudeli dudeli dej!

     And a fox joined in the funny [more towards "comically amusing"] song [or maybe sound, in an archaic sense], and an owl cried uhu! [sic] from Brynbärsbråten [capitalized, so perhaps a place name – or perhaps raspberry [dialectal, Värmland] thicket [heap of twigs]], and they didn't notice it, they didn't hear it [and they noticed, they heard it not]. But uhu! the echo was heard screeching from Getberget [The goat mountain], and in response to Nils Utterman's "doddly deea," there came doodly doodly dey!

2. an experienced (often as "gammal räv") and/or cunning person

• räv in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• räv in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• räv in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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