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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

krig.

war

4 characters1 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/kɾiːɡ/
  1. war

    masculine
    krigen mellom Russland og Sverige
Where this word comes from

Derived from Middle Low German krîch (“battle, quarrel, war; dispute”), from Old Saxon *krīg, from Proto-West Germanic *krīg (“strife, struggle, fight”), possibly from *krīgan (“to strive, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *krīganą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrihg(ʰ)-o-, a form of *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”), from *gʷreh₂- (“heavy”) + *-us (“forms adjectives”).

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