fjord

A fjord in Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

From Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþu, *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to carry forth”) + *-tus (“suffix forming action nouns from verb roots”). The word is cognate with English firth, ford.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfiːɔːd/, /fiˈɔːd/, /fjɔːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fiˈɔ(ə)ɹd/, /fjɔ(ə)ɹd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)d
• Hyphenation: fj‧ord

fjord (plural fjords)

1. A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs.

• fiord (New Zealand)

• fjord horse
• fjordlike

• → Japanese: フィヨルド (fiyorudo)

• fjord on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Old Norse fjǫrðr.

fjord m

1. fjord

From Old Danish fiorth, from Old Norse fjǫrðr (“firth, fjord”), from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

• IPA^(key): /fjoːr/, [fjoɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

fjord c (singular definite fjorden, plural indefinite fjorde)

1. firth, fjord, inlet

• fjord on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowing from Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjǫrðr.

• IPA^(key): /fjɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: fjord
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

fjord f (plural fjorden, diminutive fjordje n)

1. fjord
2. Fjord horse

   Synonym: fjordenpaard

• fjordenkust
• fjordenpaard

• voord

Borrowed from Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjǫrðr. Doublet of port.

• IPA^(key): /fjɔʁd/, /fjɔʁ/

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /fjɔʁ/, /fjɔː(ʁ)/

fjord m (plural fjords)

1. fjord

• → Vietnamese: phi-oóc

• “fjord” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfjord]

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• Hyphenation: fjord

fjord

fjord (plural fjordok)

1. fjord (a long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs)

• Bakos, Ferenc and Pál Fábián. Idegen szavak és kifejezések szótára (’A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1989. →ISBN

From Old Norse fjǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

• IPA^(key): /fjuːr/, [fjuːɾ]

fjord m (definite singular fjorden, indefinite plural fjorder, definite plural fjordene)

1. a fjord

Incorporated into the names of fjords as -fjorden.

• fjordarm
• fjordhest
• fjordsjø
• Oslofjorden

• → Catalan: fiord
• → Dutch: fjord
• → English: fjord, fiord
  • → Japanese: フィヨルド (fiyorudo)
• → French: fjord
  • → Vietnamese: phi-oóc
• → Georgian: ფიორდი (piordi)
• → German: Fjord
• → Hungarian: fjord
• → Italian: fiordo
• → Polish: fiord
• → Portuguese: fiorde
• → Russian: фьорд (fʹord)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фјорд

  Latin: fjord

• → Slovak: fjord
• → Spanish: fiordo

“fjord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse fjǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Akin to English firth.

• IPA^(key): /fjuːr/

fjord m (definite singular fjorden, indefinite plural fjordar, definite plural fjordane)

1. a fjord

Incorporated into the names of fjords as -fjorden.

• fjordarm
• fjordhest
• fjordsjø
• Oslofjorden

See above.

“fjord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjǫrðr.

• IPA^(key): /fjôrd/

fjȍrd m (Cyrillic spelling фјо̏рд)

1. fjord

• “fjord” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Old Norse fjǫrðr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjɔrd/

fjord m (genitive singular fjordu, nominative plural fjordy, genitive plural fjordov, declension pattern of dub)

1. fjord

• fjord in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

From Old Swedish fiordher, from Old Norse fjǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

fjord c

1. fjord

• fjärd