kløyvd infinitiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From kløyve (“to split”) +‎ infinitiv. The origins of the split infinitives of verbs and the jamvekt of the substantive of nouns in Trøndelag and Gudbrandsdal dialects share a lot of similarity with the Pite Sami and Lule Sami genesis of some verbs and nouns, e.g. månnå, dållå, månne, lådde etc.

Noun

kløyvd infinitiv m (definite singular kløyvde infinitiven, indefinite plural kløyvde infinitivar, definite plural kløyvde infinitivane)

1. (regarding the Norwegian Nynorsk language) a pre-2012 system of verb spelling with two separate categories of verbs. The one is verb infinitive with an a-ending, and the other one is with an e-ending. The system is based on the splitting between the verb infinitives in dialects of Eastern Norway and Trøndelag.

References

• “[1]” in Store norske leksikon