gyttja

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Swedish.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

gyttja (countable and uncountable, plural gyttjas)

  1. A mud formed from the partial decay of peat.

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from Proto-Germanic *gutjōn, related to *geutaną (“to pour”).[1]

Noun[edit]

gyttja c

  1. watery mud, muck
  2. (geology) a fine-grained, nutrient-rich organic mud, or peat, deposited in lakes and ponds

Declension[edit]

Declension of gyttja 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gyttja gyttjan gyttjor gyttjorna
Genitive gyttjas gyttjans gyttjors gyttjornas

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References[edit]

  1. ^ “gyttja”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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