endelse

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛndəlsə/, /ˈɛnːəlsə/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -əlsə
Hyphenation: en‧del‧se

Noun

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

Synonyms

ending (“end, ending”)

Derived terms

References

“endelse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“endelse” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
“endelse” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

eslende, lensede, lesende, sedlene, selende, sledene

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