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Norwegian words in Norwegian plus one single letter added

REGNE (to rain / to calculate) 

LAT (lazy) 

BRA (good) 

ØK (old horse / increase) 

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ASK (ash tree) 

RIS (rice / give a beating) 

ELG (moose) 

ÅS (hill) 

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ARK (sheet of paper) 

LEST (read (past)) 

ÅKER (field) 

KREM (cream) 

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KAR (bloke)

LIK (corpse / equal to) 

VERK (pus) 

BRIS (breeze) 

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SEKT (sect) 

RAN (robbery) 

VIK (inlet) 

LAVE (to fall profusely yet slowly,

used for heavy windless snow)

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ENKE (widow) 

RAK (straight) 

OR (alder tree) 

TAK (roof / ceiling) 

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BARK (tree bark) 

BAK (behind) 

ÅTE (bait)

VÆR (weather) 

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TAMP (end of a rope) 

 

SERK (underdress from Viking times) 

SANK (sunk) 

SEIERE (victories) 

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RED (rode) 

RATT (steering wheel) 

VERN (protection) 

LESKE (to ease thirst) 

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KAN (can) 

ELTE (to knead [dough]) 

MAKE (spouse) 

   Norwegian vocabulary provided by Torgrim Melle Stene of Oslo

BREGNE (fern)

FLAT (flat – as in «a flat surface»)

BRAK (crash)

SØK (search)

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RASK (quick)

PRIS (price)

HELG (weekend)

BÅS (booth)

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MARK (worm / field)

BLEST (small storm)

MÅKER (sea gulls)

KREMT (harrumph)

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KART (unripe fruit)

SLIK (this way, such, as)

KVERK (whack)

BRIST (flaw)

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SLEKT (extended family, relations)

TRAN (codliver oil)

VIKE (to retreat, lay off)

SLAVE (slave)

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SENKE (to lower)

RAKE (rake)

ORD (word)

TAKT (beat (in music)

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BARSK (tough – used to describe people)

BANK (bank)

RÅTE (rot)

SVÆR (huge)

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STAMP (big wooden pool with hot water

for communal bathing)

SNERK (skin – that forms on top of

milky fluids)

STANK (stench)

SEINERE (later)

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REDD (scared)

KRATT (underbrush)

KVERN (mill)

SLESKE (sleazy (pl.))

 

KANT (edge)

VELTE (to topple something)

SMAKE (to taste)

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