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solka

“solka” is a Swedish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to soil, to stain (soil with diffuse stains)
  2. to tarnish, to soil (a reputation or the like)

Etymology

From Old Norse *sulka, *sylka, from Proto-Germanic *sulukōną, *sulikōną. Cognate with dialectal Danish sulke, solke, sylke, sølke (“to sully”), Norwegian Nynorsk sulka (“to sully”), German sulchen, sülchen (“to sully, wallow around in mud or filth”).

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