Noun: tennar
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Tennar kan gjøre trevirket hardt og vanskelig å arbeide med. (Compression wood can make timber hard and difficult to work with.)
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tennoren hos bartrærne er hård og seig og vanskelig å arbeide i fordi den slår sig sterkt og klemmer sig sammen omkring redskapen (the compression wood in conifers is hard and tough and difficult to work because it warps strongly and closes in around the tool) [1926, Johannes Kåsa, Skogbrukslære, page 18:]
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det fordømte fjellgranvirket var fullt av all den fandenskap som til fantes – tennår, svartkvist og grisete gårrkvae (the damned mountain-spruce timber was full of every kind of wretchedness there was — compression wood, black knots, and messy resin) [1974, Anders Saus, I skyggen av Bjønnvassbre, page 69:]
Nouns inflected like tennar
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
1. Inherited from Old Norse þinurr (“resinous fir tree; resinous wood”). The deeper etymology is uncertain.
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk tennar, tenar and tinar, and Icelandic þinur (“resinous fir tree”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
þinurr', Old Norse Nouns '
þinurr', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
tennar', Icelandic Nouns '
þinur'.
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