Noun: elg
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Ho spring som ein elg. (She runs like an elk.)
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At skjota den staute Elg paa ein pynteleg Maate den Tid af Aaret der er Lov til, kann so vera, endaa dette ogso er armt og raatt; […] (To shoot the handsome elk in a proper way at the permitted time of the year, is one thing, even though this is also petty and cruel; […]) [1861, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860:]
Nouns inflected like elg
bernhardin,
billettautomat,
røykdukkar,
krøpling,
symbal,
synops,
synsar,
syklon,
syklus,
swazilendar,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
serbar,
server,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
setjar,
settar,
sefard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse elgr, from Proto-Germanic *elh-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“red, brown”). Akin to English elk. See: Old Norse Nouns '
elgr', English Nouns '
elk'.
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