Noun: morr
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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i dag gikk jeg tvers gjennom ganggulvet, sto der og stirret på skyen av gullig støv, viste Anders hullene i planken. – Morr, Anders (today I went straight through the hallway floor, stood there staring at the cloud of yellowish dust, and showed Anders the holes in the boards. “Crumbling matter, Anders.”) [1976, Vigdis Stokkelien, Vi, page 29:]
Nouns inflected like morr
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. Inherited from Old Norse mǫrr (“fat, tallow”), from Proto-Norse *marhwa- (“tallow, suet”), from Proto-Germanic *marhwaz (“tallow, suet”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“to decay”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk morr (“chopped offal; offal sausage”), Faroese mørur and Icelandic mör (“suet”). For the dialectal sense “crumbled matter”, compare Icelandic mor (“sediment, mud; small pieces”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
mǫrr', Old Norse Nouns '
mǫrr', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
morr', Faroese Nouns '
mørur', Icelandic Nouns '
mör'.
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