Jórsalir

Old Norse

Etymology

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Proper noun

Jórsalir m pl (genitive Jórsala)

1. Jerusalem (a city in Levant; the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel; the claimed capital city of modern Palestine)

   Synonym: Jórsalaborg

Declension

Declension of Jórsalir (strong i-stem, ar-genitive, indefinite plural only)

masculine	plural
	indefinite
nominative	Jórsalir
accusative	Jórsali
dative	Jórsǫlum
genitive	Jórsala

Derived terms

• Jórsalaborg f (“Jerusalem”)
• jórsalafari m (“Jerusalem traveller”)
• jórsalaferð f (“journey to Jerusalem”)
• jórsalafǫr f (“journey to Jerusalem”)
• jórsalalýðr m (“people of Jerusalem”)

Descendants

• Faroese: Jorsalir
• >? Old Swedish: Iōrsala
  • Swedish: Jorsala
• Norwegian Bokmål: Jorsal

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “Jórsalir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 234; also available at the Internet Archive