dager

See also: Dager and dǎgér

Cornish

dager m (plural dagrow)

Mutation of *dager*
radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
dager	dhager	unchanged	tager	tager

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Ken George, editor (2009), “dager”, in An Gerlyver Meur: Cornish-English; English-Cornish Dictionary, Kesva an Taves Kernewek, →ISBN, page 123

dager m

From old nominative of dag (“day”). Compare Old Norse dagr, Faroese dagur, Icelandic dagur.

dager c

daylight
Synonym: (more common) dagsljus
- (Can we date this quote?), traditional, “Staffan var en stalledräng (Staffansvisan) [Stephen was a stable hand (The Stephen song / Song of Stephen)]”‎^[1]:
  [archaic language overall] Staffan var en stalledräng [stalldräng]. Vi tackom [tackar – obsolete first-person plural] nu så gärna. Han vattna' [vattnade] sina fålar fem, allt [perhaps a filler – compare Dutch al] för den ljusa stjärna. Ingen dager synes än. Stjärnorna på himmelen de blänka [plural verb form, now blänker].
  Stephen was a stable hand. We now give thanks so gladly. He watered his five horses, before the bright star. No daylight is visible yet. The stars in the sky [they] are gleaming.
(figuratively) light (appearance)
framställa någon i dålig dager
portray someone in a bad light

“dager”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
“dager”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
“dager”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)