Noun: setting
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | settingen; settinga |
| Pl. | settingene |
Sample Sentences
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en setting korn (a setting of grain) [1938, Norsk kulturhistorie, volume I, page 348:]
Nouns inflected like setting
setting,
sogning,
hellighet,
befaling,
hyggestund,
skjenning,
heilo,
kve,
uavhengighet,
dellevering,
bøling,
avhengighet,
dust,
leir,
mark,
sikt,
Etymology
From an obsolete Norwegian word sette (“sixth”), originally referring to one sixth of a quarter of an old barrel. Compare settung (“old unit of dry volume”), from Old Norse séttungr (“a sixth part”).
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