"utjevning" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Norwegian Bokmål]

IPA: /ˈʉːtˌjɛʋ.nɪŋ/ Forms: utjevninga [definite, singular], utjevningen [definite, singular], utjevninger [indefinite, plural], utjevningene [definite, plural], utjamning [alternative]
Rhymes: -ɛʋnɪŋ Etymology: From utjevne (“to even out, level out; to equalize”) + -ing (“action/result-forming noun suffix”), equivalent to ut (“out”) + jevning (“leveling, evening; thickening mixture”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk utjamning, Swedish utjämning, Danish udjævning and Icelandic útjöfnun (“leveling, equalization”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|nb|utjevne|ing|t1=to even out, level out; to equalize|t2=action/result-forming noun suffix}} utjevne (“to even out, level out; to equalize”) + -ing (“action/result-forming noun suffix”), {{cog|nn|utjamning}} Norwegian Nynorsk utjamning, {{cog|sv|utjämning}} Swedish utjämning, {{cog|da|udjævning}} Danish udjævning, {{cog|is|útjöfnun|t=leveling, equalization}} Icelandic útjöfnun (“leveling, equalization”) Head templates: {{nb-noun|f|utjevninga|utjevninger|utjevningene|ds2=utjevningen|g2=m}} utjevning f or m (definite singular utjevninga or utjevningen, indefinite plural utjevninger, definite plural utjevningene)
  1. leveling, smoothing; the act of making something level, even, or smooth Tags: feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-utjevning-nb-noun-7JuZjjDp
  2. equalization; the act of removing, reducing, or evening out differences Tags: feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-utjevning-nb-noun-HwkyRh~A
  3. the act of smoothing over, reducing, or eliminating conflicts or oppositions Tags: feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-utjevning-nb-noun-aIghN8iq Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 4 74 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 4 75 17
  4. (linguistics) complete vowel assimilation in old likevektsord (“jamvekt words”) or jamvektsord (“words with jamvekt”), for example where Old Norse vika becomes vokko or vukku in Norwegian dialects Tags: feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-utjevning-nb-noun-QlhR1n1Z Categories (other): Linguistics Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: utjevne (english: to even out, level out; to equalize), utjamne (english: to even out, level out; to equalize), utjamning (english: leveling, equalization; complete vowel assimilation) Coordinate_terms: tiljevning (english: leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation), tiljamning (english: leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation)

Inflected forms

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      "english": "leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation",
      "translation": "leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation",
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation",
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      "word": "tiljamning"
    }
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      "expansion": "Swedish utjämning",
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      "expansion": "Danish udjævning",
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  "etymology_text": "From utjevne (“to even out, level out; to equalize”) + -ing (“action/result-forming noun suffix”), equivalent to ut (“out”) + jevning (“leveling, evening; thickening mixture”).\nCompare Norwegian Nynorsk utjamning, Swedish utjämning, Danish udjævning and Icelandic útjöfnun (“leveling, equalization”).",
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      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "utjevningen",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "utjevninger",
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      "form": "utjevningene",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
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      "form": "utjamning",
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        "ut",
        "jev",
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  "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
  "lang_code": "nb",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to even out, level out; to equalize",
      "translation": "to even out, level out; to equalize",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "to even out, level out; to equalize",
      "translation": "to even out, level out; to equalize",
      "word": "utjamne"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "leveling, equalization; complete vowel assimilation",
      "translation": "leveling, equalization; complete vowel assimilation",
      "word": "utjamning"
    }
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        {
          "english": "the churchyard bore unsightly traces of the Papist-Lutheran Mikjel Munk's leveling of the unbelievers' graves",
          "ref": "1956, Johan Falkberget, Plogjernet, page 149:",
          "text": "kirkegården bar skjemmende minner om papistlutheraneren Mikjel Munks utjamning av de vantroendes graver",
          "translation": "the churchyard bore unsightly traces of the Papist-Lutheran Mikjel Munk's leveling of the unbelievers' graves",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "afterwards, the wheel loader comes in for an initial leveling",
          "ref": "1997, Pål Gerhard Olsen, Manndomsprøven:",
          "text": "etterpå er det inn med hjullasteren for en første utjevning",
          "translation": "afterwards, the wheel loader comes in for an initial leveling",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "leveling"
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        [
          "smoothing",
          "smoothing"
        ],
        [
          "level",
          "level"
        ],
        [
          "even",
          "even"
        ],
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "feminine",
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      ]
    },
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        {
          "english": "Social equalization was an important political goal.",
          "text": "Sosial utjevning var et viktig politisk mål.",
          "translation": "Social equalization was an important political goal.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "throughout the post-war period, there has been an equalization of personally owned wealth",
          "ref": "1968, Arbeiderbladet, number 153, page 4, column 1:",
          "text": "i hele etterkrigstida har det foregått en utjamning av den personlig eide formuen",
          "translation": "throughout the post-war period, there has been an equalization of personally owned wealth",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "“equalisation” — utjamning — seems to have become the great goal — virtually throughout the world",
          "ref": "1969, Farmand, number 50, page 137, column 1:",
          "text": "«equalisation» – utjamning – synes å være blitt det store mål – nærsagt verden over",
          "translation": "“equalisation” — utjamning — seems to have become the great goal — virtually throughout the world",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "the comprehensive school was also to create social equalization and national integration",
          "ref": "2005, Inge Eidsvåg, Den gode lærer i liv og diktning:",
          "text": "enhetsskolen skulle også skape sosial utjevning og nasjonal integrering",
          "translation": "the comprehensive school was also to create social equalization and national integration",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "english": "The goal was a gradual smoothing out of the oppositions.",
          "text": "Målet var en gradvis utjevning av motsetningene.",
          "translation": "The goal was a gradual smoothing out of the oppositions.",
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        }
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        {
          "english": "When the vowels become completely identical, it is called complete vowel assimilation.",
          "text": "Når vokalene blir helt like, kalles det utjevning.",
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          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "complete vowel assimilation in old likevektsord (“jamvekt words”) or jamvektsord (“words with jamvekt”), for example where Old Norse vika becomes vokko or vukku in Norwegian dialects"
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          "likevektsord",
          "likevektsord#Norwegian_Bokmål"
        ],
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          "jamvektsord",
          "jamvektsord#Norwegian_Bokmål"
        ],
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          "jamvekt",
          "#Norwegian Bokmål"
        ],
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          "vika",
          "vika#Old_Norse"
        ],
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          "vokko",
          "vokko#Norwegian_Bokmål"
        ],
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          "vukku",
          "vukku#Norwegian_Bokmål"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) complete vowel assimilation in old likevektsord (“jamvekt words”) or jamvektsord (“words with jamvekt”), for example where Old Norse vika becomes vokko or vukku in Norwegian dialects"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
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      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʉːtˌjɛʋ.nɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛʋnɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "utjevning"
}
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    {
      "english": "leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation",
      "translation": "leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation",
      "word": "tiljevning"
    },
    {
      "english": "leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation",
      "translation": "leveling, adjustment; partial vowel assimilation",
      "word": "tiljamning"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "nb",
        "2": "utjevne",
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        "t2": "action/result-forming noun suffix"
      },
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      "name": "suffix"
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      "args": {
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "args": {
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      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From utjevne (“to even out, level out; to equalize”) + -ing (“action/result-forming noun suffix”), equivalent to ut (“out”) + jevning (“leveling, evening; thickening mixture”).\nCompare Norwegian Nynorsk utjamning, Swedish utjämning, Danish udjævning and Icelandic útjöfnun (“leveling, equalization”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "utjevninga",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "utjevningen",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "utjevninger",
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        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "utjevningene",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "utjamning",
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        "alternative"
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        "g2": "m"
      },
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    {
      "parts": [
        "ut",
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  "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
  "lang_code": "nb",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "english": "to even out, level out; to equalize",
      "translation": "to even out, level out; to equalize",
      "word": "utjevne"
    },
    {
      "english": "to even out, level out; to equalize",
      "translation": "to even out, level out; to equalize",
      "word": "utjamne"
    },
    {
      "english": "leveling, equalization; complete vowel assimilation",
      "translation": "leveling, equalization; complete vowel assimilation",
      "word": "utjamning"
    }
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "the churchyard bore unsightly traces of the Papist-Lutheran Mikjel Munk's leveling of the unbelievers' graves",
          "ref": "1956, Johan Falkberget, Plogjernet, page 149:",
          "text": "kirkegården bar skjemmende minner om papistlutheraneren Mikjel Munks utjamning av de vantroendes graver",
          "translation": "the churchyard bore unsightly traces of the Papist-Lutheran Mikjel Munk's leveling of the unbelievers' graves",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "afterwards, the wheel loader comes in for an initial leveling",
          "ref": "1997, Pål Gerhard Olsen, Manndomsprøven:",
          "text": "etterpå er det inn med hjullasteren for en første utjevning",
          "translation": "afterwards, the wheel loader comes in for an initial leveling",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "leveling, smoothing; the act of making something level, even, or smooth"
      ],
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        [
          "leveling",
          "leveling"
        ],
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          "smoothing",
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        ],
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          "level",
          "level"
        ],
        [
          "even",
          "even"
        ],
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          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
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      ]
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        {
          "english": "Social equalization was an important political goal.",
          "text": "Sosial utjevning var et viktig politisk mål.",
          "translation": "Social equalization was an important political goal.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "throughout the post-war period, there has been an equalization of personally owned wealth",
          "ref": "1968, Arbeiderbladet, number 153, page 4, column 1:",
          "text": "i hele etterkrigstida har det foregått en utjamning av den personlig eide formuen",
          "translation": "throughout the post-war period, there has been an equalization of personally owned wealth",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "“equalisation” — utjamning — seems to have become the great goal — virtually throughout the world",
          "ref": "1969, Farmand, number 50, page 137, column 1:",
          "text": "«equalisation» – utjamning – synes å være blitt det store mål – nærsagt verden over",
          "translation": "“equalisation” — utjamning — seems to have become the great goal — virtually throughout the world",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "the comprehensive school was also to create social equalization and national integration",
          "ref": "2005, Inge Eidsvåg, Den gode lærer i liv og diktning:",
          "text": "enhetsskolen skulle også skape sosial utjevning og nasjonal integrering",
          "translation": "the comprehensive school was also to create social equalization and national integration",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "equalization; the act of removing, reducing, or evening out differences"
      ],
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        [
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        {
          "english": "The goal was a gradual smoothing out of the oppositions.",
          "text": "Målet var en gradvis utjevning av motsetningene.",
          "translation": "The goal was a gradual smoothing out of the oppositions.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the act of smoothing over, reducing, or eliminating conflicts or oppositions"
      ],
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          "conflict",
          "conflict"
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          "opposition",
          "opposition"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "nb:Linguistics"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "When the vowels become completely identical, it is called complete vowel assimilation.",
          "text": "Når vokalene blir helt like, kalles det utjevning.",
          "translation": "When the vowels become completely identical, it is called complete vowel assimilation.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "complete vowel assimilation in old likevektsord (“jamvekt words”) or jamvektsord (“words with jamvekt”), for example where Old Norse vika becomes vokko or vukku in Norwegian dialects"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "vowel",
          "vowel"
        ],
        [
          "assimilation",
          "assimilation"
        ],
        [
          "likevektsord",
          "likevektsord#Norwegian_Bokmål"
        ],
        [
          "jamvektsord",
          "jamvektsord#Norwegian_Bokmål"
        ],
        [
          "jamvekt",
          "#Norwegian Bokmål"
        ],
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          "vika",
          "vika#Old_Norse"
        ],
        [
          "vokko",
          "vokko#Norwegian_Bokmål"
        ],
        [
          "vukku",
          "vukku#Norwegian_Bokmål"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) complete vowel assimilation in old likevektsord (“jamvekt words”) or jamvektsord (“words with jamvekt”), for example where Old Norse vika becomes vokko or vukku in Norwegian dialects"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʉːtˌjɛʋ.nɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛʋnɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "utjevning"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.