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/

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• Rhymes: -əlsə
• Hyphenation: en‧del‧se

Noun

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

1. (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!

2. (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

• a-endelse
• avledningsendelse
• bøyningsendelse
• dativendelse
• diminutivendelse
• flertallsendelse
• infinitivsendelse
• kjønnsendelse
• passivendelse
• pluralisendelse

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