Noun: run
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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taka run på ein (use witchcraft on someone)
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Han [Johan] hadde den hausten lege i trætta med Omund Horpestad um ein kvernastad, og daa hadde han truga med at han skulde taka run paa Omund. So sa i minsto Omund Horpestad daa han bad lensmannen, Mons Øksnavad, stemna Johans til Haugs-tinget ²⁷/₁₁ 1650. (He [Johans] had that autumn been in a quarrel with Omund Horpestad about a milling place, and had then threatened with using witchcraft on Omund. This is at least what Omund Horpestad told when he asked the sheriff, Mons Øksnavad, to subpoena Johans to the Haugating at 27th November 1650.) [1911, Torkell Mauland, Trolldom [Witchcraft], page 147:]
Nouns inflected like run
salsbu,
bølgjelengd,
sjølei,
betongsag,
brennvidd,
skrift,
villmark,
bedrift,
atomvekt,
hotell-lov,
grannsemd,
elvebredd,
rettssak,
fastetid,
mellomtid,
krossmess,
leilegheit,
åtgjerd,
papirvekt,
bandsag, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse rún f (“rune, secret”), from Proto-Norse *ᚱᚢᚾᚢ (*runu /rūnu/), from Proto-Germanic *rūnō. Akin to English roun (“secret; rune”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
rún', English Nouns '
roun'.
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