Norwegian Words, Names & Quotations



list of 500 of the most frequent Norwegian words used in newspapers and
novels: http://kh.hd.uib.no/tactweb/rel-kum.txt
Lists showing frequency of words used:
http://www.hf.uio.no/tekstlab/frekvensordlister/index.html
(you may need to register to use these lists), and: http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/nta/

Louis Janus info:
common words list, flash card link:
http://norwegianlanguage.info/words/
lists of en, ei, et nouns, table of verbs
http://norwegianlanguage.info/grammar/index.html
http://norskklassen.ce-service.biz/commonwords.htm
list of 50 common words Norskklassen site:

http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/materials/norwegian/norwegian-verbs.html
 List of common verbs.

http://folk.uio.no/tfredvik/amo/ - examples of orddeling,
(sūrskriving) - the practice of separating words: ex. spise stue for
spisestue, fremmed ordbok for fremmedordbok, etc.

41 links, having to do with words - ord: http://www.dinelinker.net/Referanse/Ordlister/Spraak/

Gerda Moter Erichsens bok "Ord og uttrykk pŒ fire sprŒk",
"Words and Expressions in Four Languages" Norwegian, English, German, French)
http://www.cappelendamm.no/main/katalog.aspx?f=7167&isbn=9788202288433


NAMES:

Names, name laws:
http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-20020607-019.html
http://www.norskenavn.no/navneloven.php
http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/navn/

http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/vava/audio/norwegian/female-names.html

http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/vava/audio/norwegian/male-names.html

http://www.ssb.no/navn/fornavn-kvinner-100.html: - female names

http://www.ssb.no/navn/fornavn-menn-100.html - male names

http://www.ssb.no/navn/ - enter your name, how often is it used in Norway

http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/navn/ - Name count: Frequency of name use;
click on chart to see how popular a name was from 1880 to 2000. Enter first
name or last name.

http://www.ssb.no/navn/alf/main.html - Last names in Norway

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navnedag - about name-days.

http://www.dagsdato.no/index0.html - Events today, history of this day,
name-day names.

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/07/danes_plan_to_o.html
 An interesting article that also touches on the old Norwegian naming systems.

http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/genealogy.asp?articleid=2&zoneid=2#name
historical view of naming, old viking names.

Check out background of names: http://www.behindthename.com/ (Eng)

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_hordaland/programmer_nrk_hordaland/sprakspalten/5036867.html?p_saksunivers_id=9647
 - (norsk) Interesting origins of words, names, expressions.

NORWEGIAN QUOTATIONS (sitater):

http://www.ordtak.no/

http://www.ordtak.com/

http://www.webland.no/sitater/

http://norwegianlanguage.info/resource/ordtak.html

http://oaks.nvg.org/ma3ra13.html

http://home.c2i.net/tnorm/ordtak.htm

http://gullkorn.wordpress.com/tag/ordtak/

http://www.skole.trondheim.kommune.no/sjetne/ikt/bruk_ikt/oppgvr/ordtak/ordtak.htm

http://www.forn-sed.no/folkesagn/folkesagn/gater_ordtak/index.html

http://www.nettxtra.no/sitater/

http://www.seljord.kommune.no/default.asp?Uid=490&Cid=52

http://creativeproverbs.com/no01.htm - (Eng)Proverbs from Norway, but not in Norwegian.

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