gjǫrð
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *gerdō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).
Noun
[edit]gjǫrð f (genitive gjarðar, plural gjarðar or gjarðir)
Declension
[edit] Declension of gjǫrð (strong ō-stem, ar and ir-plurals)
feminine | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | gjǫrð | gjǫrðin | gjarðar, gjarðir | gjarðarnar, gjarðirnar |
accusative | gjǫrð | gjǫrðina | gjarðar, gjarðir | gjarðarnar, gjarðirnar |
dative | gjǫrð | gjǫrðinni | gjǫrðum | gjǫrðunum |
genitive | gjarðar | gjarðarinnar | gjarða | gjarðanna |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: gjörð
- Faroese: gjørð
- Norwegian: gjord, (dialectal) gjørd, gjuld, gjard, gjort
- Old Swedish: giorþ
- Swedish: gjord
- Danish: gjord
- Norwegian Bokmål: gjord
- Gutnish: gjård
- → Middle English: gerth, girth, gyrth
References
[edit]- gjörð in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
Categories:
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰerdʰ-
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- Old Norse ō-stem nouns