“Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture: Norwegian placenames

Dining tables and chairs: Finnish placenames

Bookcase ranges: Occupations

Bathroom articles: Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays

Kitchens: grammatical terms, sometimes also other names

Chairs, desks: men’s names

Materials, curtains: women’s names

Garden furniture: Swedish islands

Carpets: Danish placenames

Lighting: terms from music, chemistry, meteorology, measures, weights, seasons, months, days, boats, sailors’ language

Bedlinen, bedcovers, pillows/cushions: flowers, plants, precious stones

Children’s items: mammals, birds, adjectives

Curtain accessories: mathematical and geometrical terms

Kitchen utensils (cutlery, crockers, textiles, glass, porcelain,
tablecloths, candles, serviettes, decorative articles, vases etc.):
foreign words, spices, herbs, fish, mushrooms, fruits or berries,
functional descriptions…”

By Margaret Marks
Transblawg

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