-erne
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Danish
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-erne
Usage notes
[edit]The nouns that inflect like this are mostly the same as those who get -er in the plural indefinite. menneske is a notable exception, being inflected mennesket, mennesker, menneskene (although the form menneskerne also occurs occasionally). Words ending in unstressed -er, such as forfatter, usually inflect -er, -eren, -ere, -erne.
Synonyms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English -erne; see -ern for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-erne
- (no longer productive) Suffix denoting belonging to or being in an area, cardinal direction, or ordinal direction.
Descendants
[edit]- English: -ern
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Akin to Old High German -rōni; see -ern for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-erne
- Adjective suffix occurring in names for directions
Descendants
[edit]Categories:
- Danish lemmas
- Danish suffixes
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English suffixes
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English suffixes
- Old English terms with usage examples