tærskel

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þreskǫldr, þreskjǫldr, þrepskjǫldr, maybe from Proto-Germanic *þreskwaldu, *þreskwadlu, *þreskudla. Possibly related to tærske (“to thrash, thresh”) in a dated sense "to stamp, stomp, stump". Compare Norwegian Bokmål terskel, treskel and Swedish tröskel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛrskəl/, [ˈtˢæʁsɡ̊əl]

Noun

tærskel c (singular definite tærsklen or tærskelen, plural indefinite tærskler)

threshold

Inflection

Declension of tærskel

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tærskel	tærsklen tærskelen	tærskler	tærsklerne
genitive	tærskels	tærsklens tærskelens	tærsklers	tærsklernes

Derived terms

dørtærskel c
smertetærskel c
tolerancetærskel c
tærskelpris c
tærskelværdi c

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