noruego

/noˈɾweɡo/ · B2 · adj

Norwegian

🇳🇴 noruego = Noruega (Norway) + -ego, the Spanish suffix for a demonym

Noruega is Norway in Spanish. Drop the final -a and the ending -ego marks the people or the thing from there, so noruego means Norwegian. Same -ego ending appears in gallego (Galician) and manchego (from La Mancha).

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