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gerði

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gerði.

Noun

gerði n (genitive singular gerðis, nominative plural gerði)

  1. enclosed field
  2. fence, hedge
Declension
More information singular, plural ...

Etymology 2

Verb

gerði

  1. inflection of gera:
    1. first-person singular past
    2. third-person singular past
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Old Norse

Etymology

From garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (to enclose).

Noun

gerði n

  1. a fenced field

Declension

More information neuter, singular ...
  • gerða (to make a fence)

Descendants

  • Icelandic: gerði
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gjerde
  • Jamtish: gjáłe
  • Old Swedish: gärþe, gærþe
  • Danish: gærde

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “gerði”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 163; also available at the Internet Archive
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