fjärdingsväg
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Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fjärding (“quarter (archaic)”) + -s- + väg (“way”), from being a quarter of an old Swedish mile (10688 m). A modern Scandinavian mile (mil) is 10 kilometers.
Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fjerdingsveg
Noun
[edit]fjärdingsväg c
- (historical) an old Scandinavian unit of length, which in Sweden was equal to 2672 m (a quarter of an old Swedish mile and approximately a quarter of a modern Scandinavian mile, or around half a league)
Usage notes
[edit]Sometimes used for (jocular) archaizing, like how fortnight might be used in English.
Declension
[edit]Declension of fjärdingsväg
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | fjärdingsväg | fjärdingsvägs |
definite | fjärdingsväg | fjärdingsvägs | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |