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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

enke.

a widow (woman whose husband has died)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. a widow (woman whose husband has died)

    feminine · masculine
  2. A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column; a widow

    feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Old Danish ænkia (“widow”), Old East Norse variant of Old Norse ekkja, from Proto-Germanic *ainakjǭ.

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