gnist

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Danish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Norse gneisti, from Proto-Germanic *gahnaistô (spark), from *ga- + *hnaistô (spark), perhaps from the ultimate source of German knistern (to crackle).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡnist/, [ɡ̊nisd̥]

Noun

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gnist c (singular definite gnisten, plural indefinite gnister)

  1. spark

Inflection

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References

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  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gnaistan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 183

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Derived from Old Norse gneisti.

Noun

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gnist m (definite singular gnisten, indefinite plural gnister, definite plural gnistene)

  1. spark

Derived terms

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  • Gnist (Spark) (Norwegian Marxist magazine; see English Wikipedia: Gnist)

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