Definitions
A pronounced dialect was spoken in Äskhult, with words and expression that today are – nearly – incomprehensible and, moreover, no longer used.
Bastalyckan: where flax was dried
Boscha: shotgun/gun
Däka: girl
Fökset: barn
Hajle: boy
Hallar: flat rock/rock
Horshakräk: horse
Hågade: remembered
Häbbaret: bedroom or innermost room
Hängklä: embroidery hung up from the roof
Härdar: fire pit
Hästatröv: beaten-down path between wheel tracks
Höret: flax
Kimmasäng: built-in bed
Lakekar: tub for grain
Laret: gathering place in the hamlet
Lyseknekt: candle-holder
Mullbänk: flower border along the wall of a house
Mökelämmen: manure hatch in the barn
Prejlades: threshed
Påommen: place above the oven where children and the elderly were placed on lambskin
Skvaltkvarn: mill used for grinding grain
Sparlakanssäng: bed with veil or curtain
Vadmal: thick woven wool fabric