Noun: barnsteen
Gender: Masculine, Neuter
Hyphenation:
uncountable
| Sg. | barnsteen |
| Pl. | barnstenen |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like barnsteen
scheen,
bombeen,
linkerbeen,
wijnsteen,
penteen,
fenomeen,
klappersteen,
maalsteen,
Helleen,
Armeen,
schoorsteen,
epifenomeen,
zonneleen,
maansteen,
dijbeen,
zoemsteen,
niersteen,
rechterbeen,
hagelsteen,
bruikleen, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From barn (“burn”) + steen (“stone”). The former part of the compound is related to the Dutch verb branden (“to burn”). Cognate to English brimstone, German Bernstein (“amber”) and Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur, brimstone”). See: English Nouns '
brimstone', German Nouns '
Bernstein', Icelandic Nouns '
brennisteinn'.
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