Noun: finke
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | finken; finka |
| Pl. | finkene |
Sample Sentences
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de stedene hvor hun [som død] kunne reise, som noe lett, liksom omdannet til en fink eller en meis (the places where she [when dead] could travel, as something light, as though transformed into a finch or a tit) [2019, Ole Robert Sunde, Jeg føler meg uvel, page 19:]
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Det Opskaarne gives et Opkog i Kraften ... saa heldes det paa Finkerne (The sliced ingredients are brought to a boil in the stock ... which is then poured over the finker.) [1845, Hanna Winsnes, Lærebog i de forskjellige Grene af Huusholdningen, 293. Finker, pages 210–211:]
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vi havde en slet Dejeuner; Baby var især fornærmet: Æg, Finker – noget hakket vont! (we had a poor breakfast; Baby was particularly offended: eggs, finker – some nasty chopped stuff!) [1887 September 19, Alexander Kielland, Breve til hans søn, Alexander og Jens Zetlitz Kielland:]
Nouns inflected like finke
skodde,
sjakkbrikke,
hjemmehygge,
finke,
longe,
hygge,
humle,
filmstjerne,
transe,
forstue,
uhygge,
kjerne,
råvare,
bøye,
myse,
tore,
kote,
veke,
sprute,
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Middle Low German vinke (“finch”), from Old Saxon *fink (“finch”), from Proto-West Germanic *finki (“finch”), from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (“finch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping- (“small bird, sparrow”), probably imitative of a bird's call.
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fink, Danish finke, Swedish fink, German Fink, Dutch vink and English finch.
3. The chiefly plural culinary sense is also found in Danish finker (“dish of chopped meat and offal”), historically the plural of finke (“finch”). See: Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
fink', Swedish Nouns '
fink', German Nouns '
Fink', Dutch Nouns '
vink', English Nouns '
finch'.
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