nordmann
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nordmann m (definite singular nordmannen, indefinite plural nordmenn, definite plural nordmennene)
- a Norwegian (person of Norwegian ancestry or inhabitant of Norway)
- (dialectal, obsolete) an inhabitant of Western Norway (used among the peasants in the mountain valleys of Eastern Norway, who considered "north" upriver)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “nordmann” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse norðmaðr, from norð- (“north”) + maðr (“person, man”), equivalent to nord + mann. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic norðmaður, Swedish norrman and Danish nordmand.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nordmann m (definite singular nordmannen, indefinite plural nordmenn, definite plural nordmennene)
- a northerner, person from the north
- Synonyms: nordbuar, nordlending
- a Norwegian (person of Norwegian ancestry or inhabitant of Norway)
- an inhabitant of Western Norway (used among the peasants in the mountain valleys of Eastern Norway, who considered “north” upriver)
- Synonyms: vestmann, vestlending
- 1908, Rikard Berge, Myllarguten, page 94:
- Der møtte «nordmennane» med hestar, og kauparar møtte fraa heile Telemarki.
- There, the westerners [lit. Norwegians] met with horses, and buyers met from all across Telemark.
Derived terms[edit]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “nordmann” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “nordmann” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
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