Norwegianization en · NOUN
Etymology
From Norwegian + -ization.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
The joik, and Sami culture generally, for a long time had been endangered under the fornorsking, or Norwegianization, policy.
2024 May 16, Avedis Hadjian, “The Sami people bring on spring - with reindeer and sleighs”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
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(countable) The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.
"Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard".
Forms
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| Norwegianizations | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| Norwegianisation | alternative | lexicographic |