drikkebror – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of drikkebror

Noun: drikkebror
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.drikkebror
Pl.drikkebrødre

Definite

Sg.drikkebroren
Pl.drikkebrødrene

Sample Sentences

  • i dagevis leiet [han] sig inn på et hotell med sine drikkebrødre og blev liggende der og ture (for days [he] rented a hotel with his drinking buddies and stayed there for celebrating) [1932, Rudolf Muus, Dikterliv i gamle Kristiania, page 11:]
  • Pers navne- og drikkebror, den litt eldre franskfilologen Per Ek (Per's name and drinking brother, the slightly older French philologist Per Ek) [2002, Atle Næss, Innersvinger, page 48:]

Nouns inflected like drikkebror

storebror, lillebror, halvbror, morbror, svigerbror, stebror, drikkebror, bror,

Etymology

Compound of drikke + bror, first part from Old Norse drekka (“to drink”), from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), from *dʰreg- (“to draw, glide”). Last part from Old Norse bróðir (“brother”), from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'drekka', Old Norse Nouns 'bróðir'.

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