Noun: nordmann
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | nordmannen |
| Pl. | nordmennene |
Sample Sentences
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Der møtte «nordmennane» med hestar, og kauparar møtte fraa heile Telemarki. (There, the westerners [lit. Norwegians] met with horses, and buyers met from all across Telemark.) [1908, Rikard Berge, Myllarguten, page 94:]
Nouns inflected like nordmann
ettermann,
vitskapsmann,
lensmann,
buskmann,
snømann,
frelsarmann,
kassemann,
kassamann,
stuntmann,
forretningsmann,
blåmann,
brannmann,
hjåsetemann,
sjømann,
tollmann,
kjøpmann,
levemann,
attentatmann,
statsmann,
kinamann, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse norðmaðr, from norð- (“north”) + maðr (“person, man”), equivalent to nord + mann. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic norðmaður, Swedish norrman and Danish nordmand. See: Old Norse Nouns '
norðmaðr', Swedish Nouns '
norrman', Danish Nouns '
nordmand'.
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