Noun: kjerning
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | kjerning |
| Pl. | kjerninger |
Definite
| Sg. | kjerninga; kjerningen |
| Pl. | kjerningene |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like kjerning
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
kjerne + -ing, verbal noun form of kjerne (“to churn”), from Old Norse kjarni, from Proto-Germanic *kernô (“core, kernel”), of *kurną (“corn, grain”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”), possibly of *ǵr̥h₂-nós (“matured, grown old”), of both *ǵerh₂- (“to grow old, mature”) and *-nóm (creates verbal adjectives from roots.). Last part from Old Norse -ingr m, -ingi m, -ing f, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō. See: Old Norse Nouns '
kjarni', Old Norse Nouns '
-ingr'.
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