Noun: ending
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | endinga; endingen |
| Pl. | endingene |
Sample Sentences
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modernisasjon (bortkastelsen av de mange endinger etc.) (modernization (the removal of the many endings, etc.)) [1877, Arne Garborg, Den ny-norske Sprog- og Nationalitetsbevægelse, page 137:]
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sensibilitetens øks styrer diktene – med makt tvinger den fram mannlig, trykksterk ending i hver linje (the ax of sensibility controls the poems - with force it forces a masculine, powerful ending in each line) [2008, Kurt Sweeney, Kjegler:]
Nouns inflected like ending
nedbryting,
nedbrytning,
etablering,
frokostblanding,
sender,
avbildning,
etterretning,
sjølei,
betongsag,
havstrømning,
koldnålsradering,
skarphet,
villmark,
bedring,
atomvekt,
klimaendring,
beiting,
kulltegning,
bergart,
berging, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
ende + -ing, first part from Old Norse endi, endir (“end, conclusion”), from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“front, forehead”), from *h₂ent- (“face, forehead, front”), perhaps from *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Last part from Old Norse -ingr m, -ingi m, -ing f, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō. See: Old Norse Nouns '
endi', Old Norse Nouns '
-ingr'.
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