Morphology Patterns
Understand how Norwegian Nynorsk words are built from prefixes, roots, and suffixes. Learn the meaning of common word parts and expand your vocabulary.
Prefixes
Word parts added before the root
From Old Norse *fyrir*, meaning 'for, on behalf of'. Indo-European root *per-*
From Proto-Germanic *ut-, indicating a process or result.
Native Norwegian prefix meaning 'under', 'below', or 'during'.
Old Norse origin, locative/directional function.
From Old Norse, meaning 'to protect'.
Germanic origin, indicates a process or result.
Old Norse origin, indicates direction or completion.
Old Norse *fyrir*, meaning 'for, concerning'. Prepositional prefix.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'of' or 'from'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'together'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'under' or 'light'.
Old Norse origin, prepositional function.
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Roots
Core meaning-bearing word parts
Old Norse origin, meaning 'work'. Core meaning of the word.
Old Norse origin, related to knowledge
Norwegian/Danish origin, meaning 'formation' or 'education'.
From Latin *concursus* (competition). Noun root.
Old Norse *vísa*, meaning 'show/teach'
Old Norse origin, meaning 'cut, average'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'write'. Verbal root.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'position, arrangement, condition'.
From French 'information', ultimately from Latin 'informatio'. Noun stem.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'passage, way'.
Related to *skanna* 'scan, investigate', traces back to *forska* 'to research'.
Old Norse origin, related to 'finding' or 'discovery'. Base for social phenomena.
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Suffixes
Word parts added after the root
Linking element connecting the noun stems. Germanic origin.
Old Norse origin, nominalizing suffix.
Germanic nominalizing suffix.
Nominalizing suffix indicating the activity of research. Origin: Old Norse.
Nynorsk suffix forming nouns from verbs, indicating action or result.
Germanic origin, nominalizing suffix.
Genitive/Possessive marker connecting the two roots.
Nominalizing suffix, forming a noun. Germanic origin.
Germanic origin, nominalizing suffix.
Old Norse origin, nominalizing suffix.
Nynorsk derivational suffix forming a noun.
Genitive/linking marker connecting noun phrases.
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