kval – Norwegian Nynorsk noun declension

Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms of kval

Noun: kval
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.kval
Pl.kvalar

Definite

Sg.kvalen
Pl.kvalane

Sample Sentences

  • Dat kjem inkje kvart Aar Kval paa Land. (It is not every year that whales come on shore.) [1856, Ivar Aasen, Norske Ordsprog:]

Nouns inflected like kval

bernhardin, billettautomat, røykdukkar, krøpling, symbal, synops, synsar, syklon, syklus, swazilendar, kroppsdel, snøbre, serbar, server, sesjon, sesong, septim, setjar, settar, sefard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Norse hvalr, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”). Akin to English whale. See: Old Norse Nouns 'hvalr', English Nouns 'whale'.

Verbs referencing "kval"

English Nouns whale.

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