fjörður

See also: fjørður

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfjœrðʏr]

  Rhymes: -œrðʏr

Noun

fjörður m (genitive singular fjarðar, nominative plural firðir)

1. fjord
2. (rare) geyser

Declension

declension of fjörður

m-s3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fjörður	fjörðurinn	firðir	firðirnir
accusative	fjörð	fjörðinn	firði	firðina
dative	firði	firðinum	fjörðum	fjörðunum
genitive	fjarðar	fjarðarins	fjarða	fjarðanna

Further reading

• “fjörður” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)