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Noun [Norwegian Bokmål]

IPA: /ɑː.moːl/ Audio: A-mål.ogg Forms: a-målet [definite, singular], a-mål [indefinite, plural], a-måla [definite, plural], a-målene [definite, plural]
Rhymes: -oːl Etymology: a- + mål, first part is referring to the letter A being used as a grammatical ending. Last part from Old Norse mál (“language, speech”), from Proto-Germanic *maþlą (“gathering; speech”), of *mōtaną (“to be allowed, to be permitted to, may”), from Proto-Indo-European *mōd- (“to permit, make able”), of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”). Etymology templates: {{root|nb|ine-pro|*med-}}, {{compound|nb|a-|mål}} a- + mål, {{inh|nb|non|mál||language, speech}} Old Norse mál (“language, speech”), {{inh|nb|gem-pro|*maþlą||gathering; speech}} Proto-Germanic *maþlą (“gathering; speech”), {{inh|nb|ine-pro|*mōd-||to permit, make able}} Proto-Indo-European *mōd- (“to permit, make able”) Head templates: {{nb-noun-n1}} a-mål n (definite singular a-målet, indefinite plural a-mål, definite plural a-måla or a-målene)
  1. (linguistics) a Norwegian dialect with consistent use of the letter A as an ending, especially for verbs in infinitive and nominative of weak feminine nouns. Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-a-mål-nb-noun-QMqddD4A Categories (other): Linguistics Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (linguistics, grammar) a Nynorsk written norm that has the suffix -a in the definite singular of strong feminine nouns and in the definite plural of strong nouns Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-a-mål-nb-noun-OSpZmpg0 Categories (other): Grammar, Linguistics Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Noun [Norwegian Nynorsk]

Forms: a-målet [definite, singular]
Head templates: {{nn-noun-unc|n|root=}} a-mål n (definite singular a-målet, uncountable), {{nn-noun-nu}} a-mål n (definite singular a-målet, uncountable)
  1. (linguistics) Dialect in which the infinitive of verbs and/or the indefinite singular of weak feminine nouns ends in -a Tags: neuter, uncountable
    Sense id: en-a-mål-nn-noun-fcpo39A2 Categories (other): Linguistics Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (linguistics, grammar) A writing style of Norwegian Nynorsk using the -a ending in the definite singular of strong feminine nouns and the definite plural of strong neuter nouns. Tags: neuter, uncountable
    Sense id: en-a-mål-nn-noun-GHGJYiSW Categories (other): Grammar, Linguistics, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 8 7 22 63 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 4 23 68 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms (dialect with definite suffix): i-mål Coordinate_terms (dialect with infinitive and weak feminine ending): e-mål, jamvektsmål
Disambiguation of 'dialect with definite suffix': 49 51 Disambiguation of 'dialect with infinitive and weak feminine ending': 46 54

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (9a214a4 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.