salami – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of salami

Noun: salami
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.salami
Pl.salamier

Definite

Sg.salamien
Pl.salamiene

Sample Sentences

  • kjøpe en pakke salami (to buy a packet of salami)
  • brødet og salamien vokser i munnen på ham (The bread and salami seem to swell in his mouth.) [1975, Rolf Døcker, En deilig søndag, page 23:]
  • fatene med salami og servelat (the platters of salami and cervelat) [1982, Knut Faldbakken, Bryllupsreisen, page 63:]

Nouns inflected like salami

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

1. Borrowed from Italian salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”) with the collective noun-forming suffix -ame (“collective noun-forming suffix”), from Latin sal (“salt”), from Proto-Italic *sāls, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). The Norwegian form corresponds formally to Italian salami, the plural of salame.
2. Compare Danish salami, Swedish salami, German Salami, Dutch salami, French salami, Catalan salami, Spanish salami, Finnish salami, Polish salami, Hungarian szalámi, Czech salám, Slovak saláma, Romanian salam, Turkish salam and Russian саля́ми (saljámi), all meaning “salami”. See: Italian Nouns 'salame', German Nouns 'Salami', Dutch Nouns 'salami', French Nouns 'salami', Catalan Nouns 'salami', Spanish Nouns 'salami', Finnish Nouns 'salami', Hungarian Nouns 'szalámi', Czech Nouns 'salám', Slovak Nouns 'saláma', Romanian Nouns 'salam'.

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