fiord

English

Noun

fiord (plural fiords)

1. (now chiefly New Zealand) Alternative spelling of fjord
   • 1841, Harriet Martineau, “The Water Sprites’ Doings.”, in Feats on the Fiord. A Tale (The Playfellow; a Series of Tales to be Published Quarterly; 3), London: Charles Knight & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 123–124:

     At last one gave a deep groan, and another declared that the spirits of the fiord were against them, and there was no doubt that their boat was now lying twenty fathoms deep, at the bottom of the creek; drawn down by the strong hand of an angry water-spirit. [...] Another said he would not go till he had looked abroad over the fiord, for some chance of seeing the boat.

   • 1909, Ralph S[tockman] Tarr, “General Physiography”, in The Yakutat Bay Region, Alaska (United States Geographical Survey, Department of the Interior, Professional Paper; 64), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, part I (Physiography and Glacial Geology), page 15:

     Disenchantment Bay, as the Yakutat Bay inlet is called north of Point Latouche, is bordered on the east by the steep hills of the peninsula and on the west by the main mountain front. Its coast is precipitous and through nearly its entire length it is a true mountain-walled fiord. The two mountain walls approach each other at Point Latouche almost at right angles, and Disenchantment Bay enters between them with a nearly north-south axis.

   • 1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384:

     At the head of the fiord, and along its sides, can still be seen the hulks of German destroyers and submarines. These sought shelter in this secluded spot, but the British Navy sought them out and sank them.

   • 2019, J. N. Moum, W. D. Smyth, “Upper Ocean Mixing”, in J. Kirk Cochran, Henry J. Bokuniewicz, Patricia L. Yager, editors, Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, volume I (Marine Biogeochemistry), London, San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 75:

     Fiords are glacially carved oceanic intrusions into land. They are often deep and narrow with a sill in the mouth. Waters from neighboring seas and locally supplied fresh water fill up the fiords, often leading to strong stratification. Fiords with tidewater glaciers also contain glacial ice. During transport into and stay in the fiord, mixing processes modify the properties of imported water masses.

Derived terms

• Fiordland

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

Noun

fiord m (plural fiords)

1. fjord

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

fiord m (plural fiords)

1. Alternative spelling of fjord

Further reading

• “fiord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Doublet of port.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: fiord

Noun

fiord m inan

1. fjord
2. Fjord horse

   Synonyms: fiording, fiordyng

Declension

Declension of fiord

	singular	plural
nominative	fiord	fiordy
genitive	fiordu	fiordów
dative	fiordowi	fiordom
accusative	fiord	fiordy
instrumental	fiordem	fiordami
locative	fiordzie	fiordach
vocative	fiordzie	fiordy

Derived terms

adjective

• fiordowy

 

Related terms

nouns

• fiording
• fiordyng

 

Further reading

• fiord in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fiord in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fjord.

Noun

fiord n (plural fiorduri)

1. fjord

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fiord	fiordul		fiorde	fiordele
genitive-dative	fiord	fiordului		fiorde	fiordelor
vocative	fiordule			fiordelor