Noun: å
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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mange bekker små gjør en stor å (every little helps; many small contributions can together produce a significant result)
Nouns inflected like å
nedbryting,
nedbrytning,
etablering,
frokostblanding,
sender,
avbildning,
etterretning,
sjølei,
betongsag,
havstrømning,
koldnålsradering,
skarphet,
villmark,
bedring,
atomvekt,
klimaendring,
beiting,
kulltegning,
bergart,
berging, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Norse á (“stream, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“stream, river; water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”).
2. Cognate with Icelandic á, Faroese á, Swedish å, Danish å, Old English ēa and German Ache (“stream, river”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
á', Old Norse Nouns '
á', Icelandic Nouns '
á', Faroese Nouns '
á', Swedish Nouns '
å', Danish Nouns '
å', Old English Nouns '
ēa'.
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