Noun: føn
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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føn over fjellene (foehn over the mountains)
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bestille vask og føn hos frisøren (to order a wash and blow-dry at the hairdresser)
Nouns inflected like føn
tjuendedag,
billettautomat,
bestevenn,
synops,
syklon,
syklus,
abiturient,
forsnevring,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
lekeplass,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
sefard,
seilas,
sektor,
sement,
sensor,
sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Föhn (“foehn”), inherited from Old High German phonno, from Vulgar Latin *faōnius, an alteration of Latin favōnius (“west wind”), from Favōnius (“Roman wind god”). Compare Danish føn and Swedish föhn. See: German Nouns '
Föhn', Latin Nouns '
favōnius', Danish Nouns '
føn'.
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