Noun: ekorn
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Brune Ekorn skvatt att og fram, ein Trepikkar sat og bankad i ein Furulegg. (Brown squirrels skipped back and forth, a woodpecker sat pecking at the trunk of a pine.) [1879, Arne Garborg, Seld til den Vonde:]
Nouns inflected like ekorn
antiklimaks,
symbol,
system,
sysken,
kroppsvev,
snøras,
sexliv,
sekret,
senter,
samråd,
samvit,
samvær,
samløp,
mikrosekund,
sesongkort,
sovjet,
solbær,
sjøfly,
sjøliv,
sirkus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse íkorni, from Proto-Germanic *aikwernô, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer-. First attested in 1646 spelled as Ejckoin in 1646 by Christen Jensøn from Askvoll, showing both palatalization (see ikønn) and a preserved diphthong (similar to his spelling of ekkje). The diphthong is also attested in 1770-s by Søren Richart Hagerup probably in Surnadal dialect. See: Old Norse Nouns '
íkorni'.
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