bekk
Icelandic
Noun
bekk
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse bekkr, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz. Cognate with German Bach, northern English beck.
Noun
bekk m (definite singular bekken, indefinite plural bekker, definite plural bekkene)
References
- “bekk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse bekkr, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz. Cognate with German Bach, northern English beck.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛkː/
Noun
bekk m (definite singular bekken, indefinite plural bekker or bekkar, definite plural bekkene or bekkane)
- brook, creek, stream (a body of running water smaller than a river)
- (Bergen dialect) well
- Synonym: brunn
Inflection
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| Aasen1 | Bekk | Bekken | Bekkjer | Bekkjerne | |
| 1901 | bekkjer (bekkir) | bekkjerne (bekkine) | |||
| 1917 | bekker | bekkene | |||
| 1938 | bekker [bekkar] | bekkene [bekkane] | |||
| 2012 (current) | bekk | bekken | bekkar, bekker | bekkane, bekkene | |
- Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
- Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
- Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
- 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century.
References
- “bekk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Noun
bekk
- accusative/dative singular of bekkr