endelse

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ende +‎ -else, first part from Old Norse enda, from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end, bring to an end, finish”), from both *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“front, forehead”), from *h₂ent- (“face, forehead, front”), perhaps from *h₂en- (“on, onto”) + and from *-ōną (creates verbs), either from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti, from *-eh₂ (stem noun suffix) + *-yéti (creates verbs), or from Proto-Indo-European *-(e)h₂yéti, from *-(e)h₂ti (factitive verb suffix). Last part from either Danish -else, from Old Danish -ælsæ -ilse, from Old Saxon -isli, -islo, or from West Germanic and Middle Low German -nisse.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛndəlsə/, /ˈɛnːəlsə/
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  • Rhymes: -əlsə
  • Hyphenation: en‧del‧se

Noun[edit]

endelse m (definite singular endelsen, indefinite plural endelser, definite plural endelsene)

  1. (rare, archaic) the act of ending or finishing; an end
    Antonyms: start, begynnelse
    • 1906, Hans E. Kinck, Agilulf den Vise, page 103:
      at elskovs-trang faar saadan slut og endelse!
      that the urge for love gets such an end and a finish!
  2. (grammar) an ending (the last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form)
    Synonym: suffiks
    Antonym: prefiks
    • 1995, John Ege, Dominoklubben:
      a-endelsene [i talemålet mitt] ble erstattet av de mer riksmålske endelsene som muliggjør å tøye og tvære bestemte substantiver ut i all evighet såfremt man har tid
      the a-suffixes [in my spoken language] were replaced by the more national dialect suffixes that make it possible to stretch and cross certain nouns forever if you have the time

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