Noun: gaman
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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her lig eg raa(mund) af rystn med sama
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t(o)re u gud tag mig ind i dit sale gama (Oh god Thorir, take me into your blessed joy.) [Post-Reformation runic headstone from Tveito, close to Hovin (on Skirva river), probably quoting a Viking runic stone from Seljord area]
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Aa vi’ du gjeva meg syste di
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alt baade ti glede aa gama (Oh if you give me your sister
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both for the happiness and fun) [1913, Olav Olsson Bjønnemyr, “Greven for Gunseli (transcription by Rikard Berge)”:]
Nouns inflected like gaman
tvogegras,
sollys,
gardsarbeid,
morsealfabet,
kjerringsnakk,
nitrogen,
wolfram,
badetøy,
atomavfall,
tullhovud,
kveitemjøl,
bakepulver,
polyuretan,
honningbrød,
dagslys,
stjernestøv,
iridium,
tvangsarbeid,
seletøy,
planarbeid, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną. Compare English game and, probably, Russian гомон (gomon). See: Old Norse Nouns '
gaman', Old Norse Nouns '
gaman', English Nouns '
game', Russian Nouns '
гомон'.
Verbs referencing "gaman"
English Nouns
game.
Translations