Noun: ekkje
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | ekkje |
| Pl. | ekkjor; ekkju; ekkjer |
Definite
| Sg. | ekkja |
| Pl. | ekkjorne; ekkjone; ekkjun; ekkjene |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like ekkje
ekkje,
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse ekkja (“widow”), from Proto-Germanic *ainakjǭ. Early attestations have a diphthong (Eicki (1646) and Eike (1749)), perhaps of similar origin as it was attested in ekorn. See: Old Norse Nouns '
ekkja', Old Norse Nouns '
ekkja'.
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