tomte

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tomte

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Borrowed from Swedish tomte.

noun tomtes

A small human-like creature in Nordic folklore that lives on farmsteads and watches over their inhabitants. In Sweden the Tomte is sometimes seen at noon, in summer, slowly and stealthily dragging a straw or an ear of corn. [...] Any one who treated the industrious Tomte with respect, and set store by the smallest straw, became rich, and neatness and regularity prevailed in his household.

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@misc{tomte_2026,
  title = {tomte},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tomte},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}