kokt egg – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: kokt egg
Gender: Neuter Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	kokt egg
Pl.	kokte egg

Definite

Sg.	kokte egget
Pl.	kokte egga; kokte eggene

Sample Sentences

jeg betraktet det kokte egget foran frokosttallerkenen min (I looked at the boiled egg in front of my breakfast plate) [1995, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Fugledansen, page 96:]

Nouns inflected like kokt egg

kokt egg,

Etymology

1. First word past participle of koke (“cook, boil”), from Middle Low German kôken, kâken, from Old Saxon *kokōn, from Proto-West Germanic *kôken, from Latin cocō, coquō (“to cook”), from earlier *quoquō, from Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti (“to be cooking”), from *pekʷ- (“to cook”).
2. Last word from Old Norse egg n (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), likely from *h₂éwis (“bird”), possibly from *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). See: Latin Nouns 'cocō', Old Norse Nouns 'egg'.