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slutt

Pronunciation: /slʉtː/

“slutt” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. an end, ending, termination, conclusion; the point at which something ceases or is completed
  2. the way in which a story, poem, performance, event, or similar work ends; an ending, conclusion
  3. the final part or remaining portion of something; an end, remainder
  4. an endpiece; a component or section forming the end of something

adjective

  1. over, finished, ended; having reached an end
  2. over or ended between people; no longer in a relationship or association

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German slūt (“end, conclusion”), a deverbal noun formed from slūten (“to close, shut; conclude”), from Old Saxon slūtan (“to close, lock”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleutan (“to bolt, lock”), from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (“to bolt, lock; shut, close”). The further origin is uncertain. The Germanic verb has tentatively been connected with a metathesized s-mobile form of…

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