ablegøye – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: ablegøye
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	ablegøye
Pl.	ablegøyer

Definite

Sg.	ablegøyen
Pl.	ablegøyene

Sample Sentences

og dertilmed saa er det mere ablegøi, mirakler og fanteri i sjøgræs end i nogen anden ting (and besides, there is more imagination, miracles, and fantasy in seagrass than in any other thing) [1884, H. Meltzer, Smaabilleder af Folkelivet: Skizzer, page 35:]
dette var da ingen ablegøi lel (this was then no mischief after all) [1884, H. Meltzer, Smaabilleder af Folkelivet: Skizzer, page 30:]
at nogen skulde kalde paa mig er den rene ablegøi (that someone should call on me is pure imagination) [1949, Knut Hamsun, Paa gjengrodde stier, page 74:]
gjøre ablegøyer (do pranks)
[hun] sang og gjorde ablegøier ([she] sang and made games) [1919, Johan Falkberget, Fimbulvinter, page 62:]
der blev gjort utallige abilgøis med [Jansen] (countless pranks were done with [Jansen]) [1917, Halfdan Kjerulf, Av hans efterladte papirer, page 257:]
han var et oppkomme av vitser og ablegøyer (he was a genius of jokes and amusements) [1996, Bergljot Hobæk Haff, Skammen, page 164:]

Nouns inflected like ablegøye

overtakelse, modelljernbane, seanse, overtagelse, snegle, satire, sminkebørste, salvie, sjanse, smerte, slange, sonate, single, skygge, skotte, skjede, skalle, bekreftelse, fenaknoke, sommerferie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Probably a mixture of Danish abeløjer (“hijinks”), consisting of both abe (“monkey, ape”), from Old Norse api (“ape, monkey; fool”), from Proto-Germanic *apô (“ape, monkey”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“(body of) water”) + løjer (“antics”), as well as Norwegian gøy (“fun”). Possibly from Dutch babbelguigje. See: Danish Nouns 'abeløjer', Old Norse Nouns 'api', Dutch Nouns 'babbelguigje'.