Talk:morketida

RFV discussion
"“the dark period” – in Tromsø, Norway, the mid-winter period from mid-November to mid-January when the sun does not rise above the horizon; Mørketid." Not evidenced in Google Books. Equinox ◑ 22:58, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This appears to be a Norwegian word adapted to English alphabet. The article Keep Your Lamps Burning: Advent in the Arctic by Abby Arthur Johnson (editor with JRB Associates in Washington, D.C.. also serves as a lecturer in English at Georgetown University) from 1983reads: "The lights of an Arctic Advent are perhaps best understood in relation to the dark time, called morketida in Norwegian. During morketida, the sun does not emerge above the horizon. " It seems that polar night is the corresponding English term.--Hekaheka 07:53, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Using words from other languages when referring to a foreign country is usual (see the use of autoroute in English or of highway in French). morketida is a typical case. I've found several uses of this word in English, but all of them are in the same site. It's probably not enough to keep it... Lmaltier 16:12, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It is a usual practice, but does every such usage create a new word in English? I would say it doesn't. It still remains a Norwegian word that has been used by one English writer. --Hekaheka 21:41, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

The Norwegian term is mørketid. Thus, the English transliteration should be moerketid. The -a suffix is a definite singular article; I don't see why it should make it to an English word (the plural form morketidas in the entry for this word appears incredibly strange to a native speaker of Norwegian for this reason; though I suppose this is no real argument). --Harald Khan  Ճ  14:31, 17 October 2010 (UTC)


 * RFV failed, entry deleted. —Ruakh TALK 03:20, 12 January 2011 (UTC)