nordmann

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

nordmann m (definite singular nordmannen, indefinite plural nordmenn, definite plural nordmennene)

  1. a Norwegian (person of Norwegian ancestry or inhabitant of Norway)
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) an inhabitant of Western Norway (used among the peasants in the mountain valleys of Eastern Norway, who considered "north" upriver)

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse norðmaðr.

Pronunciation

Noun

nordmann m (definite singular nordmannen, indefinite plural nordmenn, definite plural nordmennene)

  1. Norwegian (person of Norwegian ancestry or inhabitant of Norway)
  2. (archaic) inhabitant of Western Norway (used among the peasants in the mountain valleys of Eastern Norway, who considered "north" upriver)

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