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kibäck

English translation: kibitka

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Swedish term or phrase:kibäck
English translation:kibitka
Entered by: Michael Peverett

07:56 Feb 9, 2022
Swedish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Rural life, Norrland
Swedish term or phrase: kibäck
From a regional novel set in Ångermanland, this section in about the 1940s. (Dagsmeja, by Bo R Holmberg)

From the context a "kibäck" is a kind of horse-drawn sled. Can anyone confirm this and provide more information? I haven't managed to track down any pertinent material on the internet.

Context 1. "han som sålde [hästen] begärde bara fyrahundra och då ingick en splitterny sele och en gammkibäck dessutom..."

Context 2. "när han kom upp till stallet hade hästen ätit och tömt vatternhinken och såg bra nog piggare ut och kibäcken drog han lätt och lekande ner till Lundgren."
Michael Peverett
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:55
kibitka
Explanation:
Kibäck could be dialect pronunciation of the word for a type of Russian covered sled, used and known in Sweden and Finland as well. Forms of the word given in SAOB are "kibicka, kibika 1790—1929. kibitk 1852. kibitka 1808 osv. kibitker, pl. 1822. kybika c. 1785"
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Agneta Pallinder
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:55
Grading comment
Thank you for your help Agneta, I think you're right.
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3wooden sled
Per-Erik Nordström
2kibitka
Agneta Pallinder


  

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kibitka


Explanation:
Kibäck could be dialect pronunciation of the word for a type of Russian covered sled, used and known in Sweden and Finland as well. Forms of the word given in SAOB are "kibicka, kibika 1790—1929. kibitk 1852. kibitka 1808 osv. kibitker, pl. 1822. kybika c. 1785"

Agneta Pallinder
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:55
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 14
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Thank you for your help Agneta, I think you're right.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
wooden sled


Explanation:
I asked a cousin who is a farmer, with lots of experience of horses and forest work, but he had never heard the term.
He hinted about another word, though. Bäckdaniel is a kind of light wooden sled. Probably inspired by a Dalecarlian entrepreneur Bäck Daniel Danielsson.

Per-Erik Nordström
Sweden
Local time: 02:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish
PRO pts in category: 17
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