ormeyngel – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of ormeyngel

Noun: ormeyngel
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.ormeyngel
Pl.ormeyngel

Definite

Sg.ormeyngelen
Pl.ormeynglene

Sample Sentences

  • Johannes «Døperen», den store botspredikant … kalte fariseerne og de skriftlærde for «ormeyngel» (John "the Baptist", the great preacher of penance, called the Pharisees and scribes "worm fry") [1930, Anton Fridrichsen, Samtiden:]
  • ormeyngel, brølte han: avgrunnens og dypets barn! (worm fry, he roared: children of the abyss and the depths!) [1974, Jens Bjørneboe, Haiene, page 116:]

Nouns inflected like ormeyngel

ormeyngel, yngel, abboryngel,

Etymology

orm + -e- + yngel, first part from Old Norse ormr (“snake, worm”), from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (“worm, snake”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm”), possibly from *wer- (“to burn”). Last part from the verb yngle (“create, procreate, grow”), from the adjective ung (“young”), from Old Norse ungr (“young”), from Proto-Germanic *jungaz (“young”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós (“young”), from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”), from *h₂óyu (“long time, lifetime”) + *-Hō (Hoffmann's suffix). See: Old Norse Nouns 'ormr', Old Norse Nouns 'ungr'.

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