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He was born in Byneset outside Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag. His father was Jakob Høyem and his mother Karen Olsdatter Prestegaard Høyem.
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As a linguist, he fought for a Nynorsk written normal which was more consistent with Trøndersk than Ivar Aasen"s version was. One notable thing is that he etymologically employed the Old Norse character ð as a silent letter in e.g. með, preposition "with", from Old Norse með, which was spelled medical in Ivar Aasen"s normal. He also preferred to use a endings where Ivar Aasen"s normal has i, e.g. sola noun "the sun" instead of soli.
