endelse

Norwegian Bokmål 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.

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

(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!
(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