Norwegianization

English

noun
Definitions
  • The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
  • The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.

Etymology

Suffix from English Norwegian.

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English

Norwegian

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