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Yesterday I learnt that the Danish word for breakfast is morgenmad<\/strong> [\u02c8m\u0252\u02d0\u0252n\u02ccma\u00f0] (“morning food”), which makes sense [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n Lunch is frokost<\/strong> (“early meal”), which made me think of the German word for breakfast Fr\u00fchst\u00fcck<\/strong> (“early piece”).<\/p>\n Frokost<\/strong> comes from the Middle Low German vr\u014dkost<\/em> (early meal), from vr\u014d<\/em> (early) and kost<\/em> (meal, food) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n In Norwegian frokost<\/strong> is breakfast, and lunch is lunsj<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In Swedish breakfast is frukost<\/strong> and lunch is lunch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In Danish dinner is aftensmad<\/em> (“evening meal”), or middag<\/strong> (“midday”), which also means noon, banquet or lunch. In Norwegian and Swedish middag<\/strong> means dinner, noon or midday [source<\/a>]. Somewhat confusing!<\/p>\n In Icelandic the meals are: morgunmatur<\/strong> (breakfast – “morning food”) h\u00e1degismatur<\/strong> (lunch – “noon food”) and kv\u00f6ldmatur<\/strong> (dinner – “evening food”) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n In Faroese morgunmatur<\/strong> means breakfast, lunch or a snack [source<\/a>]. Lunch is also mi\u00f0m\u00e1li<\/strong> [source<\/a>]. Dinner is d\u00f8gur\u00f0i<\/strong> [\u02c8t\u00f8\u02d0v\u028a\u0279\u026a], which can also mean lunch [source<\/a>], or n\u00e1ttur\u00f0i<\/strong> [\u02c8n\u0254t\u02d0\u02cc\u028a\u0279\u026a] = dinner, supper (main) meal in the evening [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n What do you call the different meals?<\/p>\n The first meal of the day is breakfast for me, whenever I have it. The meal in the middle of the day I used to call dinner, but now call lunch. The evening meal I call tea, or dinner if I eat out somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I learnt that the Danish word for breakfast is morgenmad [\u02c8m\u0252\u02d0\u0252n\u02ccma\u00f0] (“morning food”), which makes sense [source]. Lunch is frokost (“early meal”), which made me think of the German word for breakfast Fr\u00fchst\u00fcck (“early piece”). Frokost comes from the Middle Low German vr\u014dkost (early meal), from vr\u014d (early) and kost (meal, food) [source]. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,108,116,124,10,31,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-faroese","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-norwegian","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}