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endelse.

the act of ending or finishing; an end

7 characters3 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɛndəlsə//ˈɛnːəlsə/
  1. the act of ending or finishing; an end

    archaic · masculine · rare
  2. an ending (the last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

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.

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