"sjø" meaning in Norwegian Nynorsk

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Interjection

Etymology: Contraction of ser du? (“do you see?”) or skjønner du (“y'know”) Head templates: {{head|nn|interjections}} sjø
  1. (dialectal, Trøndelag dialect) Used as a rhetorical question to confirm agreement or understanding at the end of a statement. Tags: dialectal Related terms: ass, skjønner du, skjønnerru, vettu, veit du
    Sense id: en-sjø-nn-intj-FOQuu4Nl Categories (other): Trøndersk Norwegian, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 31 2 36 31 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 1 35 32 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ʃøː/, /sjøː/ Forms: sjøen [definite, singular], sjøar [indefinite, plural], sjøane [definite, plural], form sjøs [genitive]
Etymology: From Old Norse sjór, sjár, sær, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz. Akin to English sea. Etymology templates: {{der|nn|non|sjór}} Old Norse sjór, {{der|nn|gem-pro|*saiwiz}} Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, {{cog|en|sea}} English sea
  1. a sea, ocean Tags: masculine Categories (place): Bodies of water, Landforms Synonyms (ocean): hav, mar-
    Sense id: en-sjø-nn-noun-Sl3kM1HC Disambiguation of Bodies of water: 28 61 11 Disambiguation of Landforms: 26 51 23 Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 31 2 36 31 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 1 35 32 0 Disambiguation of 'ocean': 100 0
  2. a lake Tags: masculine Synonyms: innsjø
    Sense id: en-sjø-nn-noun-YkUaXDEi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sjo, sjå, sæ (in placenames), sy (alt: helg), sjy (alt: Østerdalsmål)

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Dei store sjøane"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Eriesjøen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fjordsjø"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "innsjø"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Irskesjøen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "kratersjø"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "kroksjø"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "meandersjø"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Ontariosjøen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "oversjøisk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøaure"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøbein"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøfarande"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøfart"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøfly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøfolk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøforhold"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøfront"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøfugl"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøgang"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøgåande"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøkabel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøkant"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøkart"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøklar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøkrig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøliv"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøløve"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjømakt"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjømann"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjømat"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjømil"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjønivå"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøorm"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøpattedyr"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøreise"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjørøvar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøsalt"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøslag"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøtransport"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøuhyre"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøutsikt"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjøvatn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "til sjøs"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "undersjøisk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "sjór"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse sjór",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*saiwiz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *saiwiz",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sea"
      },
      "expansion": "English sea",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse sjór, sjár, sær, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz. Akin to English sea.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sjøen",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sjøar",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sjøane",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "form sjøs",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 2 36 31 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 1 35 32 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 61 11",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "nn",
          "name": "Bodies of water",
          "orig": "nn:Bodies of water",
          "parents": [
            "Landforms",
            "Water",
            "Earth",
            "Places",
            "Liquids",
            "Nature",
            "Names",
            "Matter",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Chemistry",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Sciences",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 51 23",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "nn",
          "name": "Landforms",
          "orig": "nn:Landforms",
          "parents": [
            "Earth",
            "Places",
            "Nature",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a sea, ocean"
      ],
      "id": "en-sjø-nn-noun-Sl3kM1HC",
      "links": [
        [
          "sea",
          "sea"
        ],
        [
          "ocean",
          "ocean"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "ocean",
          "word": "hav"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "ocean",
          "word": "mar-"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a lake"
      ],
      "id": "en-sjø-nn-noun-YkUaXDEi",
      "links": [
        [
          "lake",
          "lake"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "innsjø"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃøː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sjøː/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sjå"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "in placenames",
      "word": "sæ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "alt": "helg",
      "word": "sy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "alt": "Østerdalsmål",
      "word": "sjy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sjø"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Contraction of ser du? (“do you see?”) or skjønner du (“y'know”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "interjections"
      },
      "expansion": "sjø",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Trøndersk Norwegian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 2 36 31 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 1 35 32 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I don’t know.",
          "text": "Æ veit ikkj, sjø.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "She can it, y'know, but now she is exhausted as hell.",
          "text": "Ho kainn det sjø, men no e ho klar som faen.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "It wasn't me, y'know.",
          "text": "Det va itj mæ, sjø.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used as a rhetorical question to confirm agreement or understanding at the end of a statement."
      ],
      "id": "en-sjø-nn-intj-FOQuu4Nl",
      "links": [
        [
          "rhetorical question",
          "rhetorical question#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal, Trøndelag dialect) Used as a rhetorical question to confirm agreement or understanding at the end of a statement."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ass"
        },
        {
          "word": "skjønner du"
        },
        {
          "word": "skjønnerru"
        },
        {
          "word": "vettu"
        },
        {
          "word": "veit du"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sjø"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "nn:Bodies of water",
    "nn:Landforms"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Dei store sjøane"
    },
    {
      "word": "Eriesjøen"
    },
    {
      "word": "fjordsjø"
    },
    {
      "word": "innsjø"
    },
    {
      "word": "Irskesjøen"
    },
    {
      "word": "kratersjø"
    },
    {
      "word": "kroksjø"
    },
    {
      "word": "meandersjø"
    },
    {
      "word": "Ontariosjøen"
    },
    {
      "word": "oversjøisk"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøaure"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøbein"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøfarande"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøfart"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøfly"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøfolk"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøforhold"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøfront"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøfugl"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøgang"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøgåande"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøis"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøkabel"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøkant"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøkart"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøklar"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøkrig"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøliv"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøløve"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjømakt"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjømann"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjømat"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjømil"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjønivå"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøorm"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøpattedyr"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøreise"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjørøvar"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøsalt"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøslag"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøtransport"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøuhyre"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøutsikt"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjøvatn"
    },
    {
      "word": "til sjøs"
    },
    {
      "word": "undersjøisk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "sjór"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse sjór",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*saiwiz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *saiwiz",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sea"
      },
      "expansion": "English sea",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse sjór, sjár, sær, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz. Akin to English sea.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sjøen",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sjøar",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sjøane",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "form sjøs",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a sea, ocean"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sea",
          "sea"
        ],
        [
          "ocean",
          "ocean"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a lake"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lake",
          "lake"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "innsjø"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃøː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sjøː/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "ocean",
      "word": "hav"
    },
    {
      "sense": "ocean",
      "word": "mar-"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjo"
    },
    {
      "word": "sjå"
    },
    {
      "roman": "in placenames",
      "word": "sæ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "helg",
      "word": "sy"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Østerdalsmål",
      "word": "sjy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sjø"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "nn:Bodies of water",
    "nn:Landforms"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Contraction of ser du? (“do you see?”) or skjønner du (“y'know”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "interjections"
      },
      "expansion": "sjø",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "intj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ass"
    },
    {
      "word": "skjønner du"
    },
    {
      "word": "skjønnerru"
    },
    {
      "word": "vettu"
    },
    {
      "word": "veit du"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Norwegian Nynorsk dialectal terms",
        "Norwegian Nynorsk terms with usage examples",
        "Trøndersk Norwegian"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I don’t know.",
          "text": "Æ veit ikkj, sjø.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "She can it, y'know, but now she is exhausted as hell.",
          "text": "Ho kainn det sjø, men no e ho klar som faen.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "It wasn't me, y'know.",
          "text": "Det va itj mæ, sjø.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used as a rhetorical question to confirm agreement or understanding at the end of a statement."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rhetorical question",
          "rhetorical question#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal, Trøndelag dialect) Used as a rhetorical question to confirm agreement or understanding at the end of a statement."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sjø"
}

Download raw JSONL data for sjø meaning in Norwegian Nynorsk (3.7kB)

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  "path": [
    "sjø"
  ],
  "section": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "subsection": "interjection",
  "title": "sjø",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: dialectal, Trøndelag dialect",
  "path": [
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  "subsection": "interjection",
  "title": "sjø",
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{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Norwegian Nynorsk: 'skjønner du', originally 'skjønner du'",
  "path": [
    "sjø"
  ],
  "section": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "subsection": "interjection",
  "title": "sjø",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Norwegian Nynorsk: 'veit du', originally 'veit du'",
  "path": [
    "sjø"
  ],
  "section": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "subsection": "interjection",
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}

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