rosemaler

The story

1. Middle Low German · derived frommālen“to paint”
2. Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed fromrosemaler
3. English todayrosemaler

From rosemaling + -er; or borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaler, from rose (“rose”) + male (“to paint”) (cognate with Old Danish malæ (Danish male), Old Norse mála, Old Swedish mala (Swedish mala), from Middle Low German mālen (“to paint”)) + -er (“-er, suffix indicating a person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb”).

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