Noun: abbedissestue
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | abbedissestue |
| Pl. | abbedissestuer |
Definite
| Sg. | abbedissestua; abbedissestuen |
| Pl. | abbedissestuene |
Sample Sentences
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det siste maaltid spiste de begge ved fru Groas bord i abbedissestuen (the last meal they both ate at Mrs. Groa's table in the abbess' room) [1920, Sigrid Undset, Kransen, page 233:]
Nouns inflected like abbedissestue
krokodille,
snuppe,
flytebrygge,
smekke,
slynge,
slette,
skøyte,
sløyfe,
brennesle,
skuffe,
skråme,
skrøne,
skisse,
skinke,
skinne,
skjære,
skorpe,
diamantgruve,
revebjelle,
øygruppe, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
abbedisse + stue, first part from Old Norse abbadís, abbadissa (“abbess”), through Middle Low German abbadisse, from Medieval Latin abbātissa (“abbess, female head of an abbey”), from both Latin abbās, from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), an alternative form of ἀββα (abba, “father, title of respect given to abbots”) from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”), from Proto-Semitic *ʔabw- (“father”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔab-, ultimately an onomatopoeic nursery word, and from -issa (“feminine noun-forming suffix”), from Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa), likely from -ης (-ēs), from Proto-Indo-European *-ēs. Last part from Old Norse stofa, from the older form stufa, from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“room, living room, heated room”). See: Latin Nouns '
abbās', Old Norse Nouns '
stofa'.
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