Noun: bomvei
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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hun visste om en bomvei hun kunne komme inn på (she knew of a toll road she could get on) [2000, Ketil Bjørnstad, Ludvig Hassels tusenårsskifte, page 268:]
Nouns inflected like bomvei
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
bom + vei, first part from either Middle Low German bōm, from Old Saxon bōm or from Dutch boom (“tree, beam, mast, boom”), from Middle Dutch bôom (“tree, beam, pole, boom barrier”), from Old Dutch bōm (“tree”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum (“tree, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, *bagmaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”). Last part from Danish vej, from Old Norse vegr (“way, road”), from Proto-Germanic *wegaz (“way, path”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). See: Dutch Nouns '
boom', Danish Nouns '
vej', Old Norse Nouns '
vegr'.
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