Meaning of sava | Babel Free

Definitioner

1. to be in sap (for the juice in plants to rise, to ascend)
2. to strip the sap from trees (usually birches)

Exempel

“tiden nu är inne, då björken safvar”

the time is right, when the birch is in sap

“ett träd, som vårtiden safvas”

a tree, which in the springtime is stripped of sap

“Har han bläckat och safvat i min vackra fimmelstång. – Fimmelstång? – Ja, den där björken skulle bli en fimmelstång. Has he cut and stripped sap in my beautiful thill. – Thill? – Yes, that birch should have become a thill.”

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