Noun: grøftefyll
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | grøftefyll |
| Pl. | grøftefyller |
Definite
| Sg. | grøftefylla; grøftefyllen |
| Pl. | grøftefyllene |
Sample Sentences
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sommerens karneval sto i grøftefyllas tegn (this summer's carnival was marked by drinking outside) [1986 July 24, Aftenposten Aften, page 7:]
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natt til første mai, nasjonaldagen for grøftefyll blant befolkningens fjortiser (night to the first of May, the national day for drinking outside among the population's teenyboppers) [2005, Universitas:]
Nouns inflected like grøftefyll
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
grøft + -e- + fyll, first part from Old Norse grǫftr (“digging, burial”), from Proto-Germanic *graftuz (“digging, carving”), from *grabaną + *-þuz, first part from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrobʰ-, o-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, bury”). Last part from Old Norse fylla (“to fill, complete”), from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to fill, make full”), from *fullaz + *-janą, first part from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
grǫftr', Old Norse Nouns '
fylla'.
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