Noun: mold
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | molda; molden |
| Pl. | moldene |
Sample Sentences
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Han kastet seg ned i åkeren og grov en grop i molda. (He fell down in the field and dug a hole in the soil) [1973, Sigbjørn Hølmebakk, Tolv trøndere:]
Nouns inflected like mold
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
From Norwegian Nynorsk mold, from Old Norse mold (“earth, dirt, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“mould, soil, dirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Doublet of muld of Danish origin. See: Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
mold', Old Norse Nouns '
mold'.
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