Noun: sjø
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sjø
tjuendedag,
billettautomat,
bestevenn,
synops,
syklon,
syklus,
abiturient,
forsnevring,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
lekeplass,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
sefard,
seilas,
sektor,
sement,
sensor,
sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse sjór, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz. The form to some extent continues the older Danish spelling siø (sjø), which had become obsolete (as against sø) by 1800. In Norway it was preserved and/or revived under influence of native dialects. This is already a development of the 19th century (thus before the creation of Bokmål proper). See: Old Norse Nouns '
sær'.
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