nypon

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Swedish hiupon (possibly nominative plural), from Proto-Germanic *heupą, *heupōn.[1] Compare Danish hyben, Norwegian nype, hjupa, Old Saxon hiopo, Old High German hiufo, dialectal German hiefen, hüfen, Old English héope and English hip. The beginning in n- has come to be through a misconception with a first element in a compound word ending in n. For example in stennypon (Norwegian steinhjupa, originally sten + hjupon) the misconception is that the ending n in sten is a part of hjupon which it is not.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈnyːˌpɔn/

Noun

nypon n

  1. rosehip (the fruit of a rose)

Declension
Declension of nypon 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nypon nyponet nypon nyponen
Genitive nypons nyponets nypons nyponens
  • nyponblom
  • nyponbuske
  • nyponros
  • nyponröd
  • nyponsnår
  • nyponsoppa
  • nyponte

Trivia
  • Swedish train ticket collectors enter the wagon calling out for nypåstigna (new passengers), which is sometimes jokingly misheard for Nyponstigen (rosehip path, supposedly a street name).

References
  1. nypon in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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