Noun: hjem
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | hjemmet |
| Pl. | hjemma; hjemmene |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like hjem
mellomrom,
baderom,
aldershjem,
lasterom,
pusterom,
bagasjerom,
soverom,
hvilehjem,
siderom,
maskinrom,
kvilehjem,
motorrom,
hotellrom,
avkom,
pleiehjem,
lam,
sjukehjem,
styrerom,
sykehjem,
klokkerom, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Danish hjem, from Old Danish hēm, hiem, from Old Norse heimr, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), *tḱóymos (“settlement, dwelling”), from o-grade form of *tḱey- (“to settle, dwell”) + *-mos (action/result noun forming suffix). See: Danish Nouns '
hjem', Old Norse Nouns '
heimr'.
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