Noun: vånd
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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en simpel vindmølle – på en meter lang stav stukket ned i jordtaket på utkjelleren har … holdt vånden (jordrotten) vekk fra potetene (A simple windmill—on a metre-long pole stuck into the earthen roof of the cellar—has … kept the water voles (water rats) away from the potatoes.) [1931, Aftenposten, number 296, page 4, column 2:]
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vanligst finner man gnag og utgravde gressganger, men noen ganger kan man finne fotspor fra vånd i mudder langs vann eller i snøen (Most often one finds gnaw marks and excavated runs through the grass, but sometimes water-vole footprints can be found in mud beside water or in the snow.) [2021, Arnodd Håpnes, Dyrespor, page 132:]
Nouns inflected like vånd
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
1. Probably related to vinde (“to wind, turn”). It may ultimately continue *wanduz (“mole, vole”), perhaps through Middle Low German *want (“mole, vole”) or Old English wond (“mole”), but the immediate route into Norwegian is uncertain.
2. Compare dialectal Swedish Swedish vand and vande (“vole”), and dialectal English English want and wont (“mole”). See: English Nouns '
want'.
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