Noun: a-ending
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | a-ending |
| Pl. | a-endinger |
Definite
| Sg. | a-endinga; a-endingen |
| Pl. | a-endingene |
Sample Sentences
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Ordene 'boka' og 'kasta' har a-ending. (The words 'boka' (the book) and 'kasta' (threw) have a-endings.)
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ordene kom langsomt, ett og ett ble de ropt ut med lange mellemrum, med sterk salvelse og proppet av diftonger og a-endelser (the words came slowly, one by one they were shouted out at long intervals, with strong anointing and stuffed with diphthongs and a-endings) [1955, Jens Bjørneboe, Jonas, page 52:]
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jeg [Knut Faldbakken] proletariserte meg ikke, og jeg begynte aldri med a-endinger (I [Knut Faldbakken] did not proletarianize myself, and I never started with a-endings) [2012 December 21, hamar-dagblad.no:]
Nouns inflected like a-ending
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. a + ending, first part from Latin a, from Ancient Greek Α (A, “alpha”), likely through Etruscan, from Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ), from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from Egyptian 𓃾.
2. Last part from both Old Norse endi, endir (“end, conclusion”), from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“front, forehead”), from *h₂ent- (“face, forehead, front”), perhaps from *h₂en- (“on, onto”) + and the suffix from Old Norse -ingr m, -ingi m, -ing f, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō. See: Old Norse Nouns '
endi', Old Norse Nouns '
-ingr'.
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