riffel

See also: Riffel

Danish

Etymology

Shortened from riffelbøsse (“rifled firearm”), from the verb rifle (“to produce grooves or furrows in something”), ultimately from or related to Proto-West Germanic *rīfilōn (“to scratch, scrape”).

Noun

riffel c (singular definite riflen or riffelen, plural indefinite rifler)

  1. rifle (firearm with a rifled barrel)

Inflection
Declension of riffel
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative riffel riflen
riffelen		 rifler riflerne
genitive riffels riflens
riffelens		 riflers riflernes

References

German

Verb

riffel

  1. inflection of riffeln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative
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