fremmedord

Danish

Etymology

fremmed (foreign) +‎ ord (word)

Noun

fremmedord n (singular definite fremmedordet, plural indefinite fremmedord)

  1. a loanword that has not been assimilated (orthographically, phonologically, inflectionally etc.), and is hence perceived as foreign
  2. (by extension) a word denoting a concept claimed to be alien to someone
    • 2010, Thomas Larsen, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, I orkanens øje: samtaler med statsminister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 8:
      Spin er ikke et fremmedord for Løkke.
      Spin is not an alien concept to Løkke.
    • 2010, Benn Q. Holm, Hafnia punk, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
      “Far” var allerede et fremmedord for Luna, “far” var ham der kom en gang om måneden når han alligevel var i nabolaget.
      "Father" was already a foreign notion to Lune, "father" was that guy who came once a month when he happened to be in the neighbourhood.
    • 2015, Jørgen Christensen, Muhammed-tegningerne, demokratiet og sikkerhedspolitikken, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 173:
      Ifølge chefredaktør Carsten Juste var presseetik og selvcensur ikke et[sic] fremmedord for Jyllands-Posten: ...
      According to head editor Carsten Juste, press ethics and self-censorship were not an alien concept[sic] to Jyllands-Posten: ...
    • 2017, Niels Vogel, Bliv voksen!: En bog om de umodne voksne, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 152:
      Empati, som er grundpillen i den sociale intelligens, var i det store og hele et fremmedord for Glistrup, ...
      Empathy, which is the fundamental pillar of social intelligence, was, on the whole, a foreign concept to Glistrup, ...

Declension

Declension of fremmedord
neuter
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fremmedord fremmedordet fremmedord fremmedordene
genitive fremmedords fremmedordets fremmedords fremmedordenes

Hypernyms

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From fremmed +‎ ord.

Noun

fremmedord n (definite singular fremmedordet, indefinite plural fremmedord, definite plural fremmedorda or fremmedordene)

  1. a foreign word (word taken from another language without being adapted in any way)

See also

  • framandord (Nynorsk)

References