Noun: jord
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Det finst ingen andre jorder me kan rømma til. (There are no other earths that we can escape to.)
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Innan stjernekunna og lyrikken kallar ein tidvis jorda for Tellus. (Within astronomy and poetry the earth is sometimes called Tellus.)
Nouns inflected like jord
salsbu,
bølgjelengd,
sjølei,
betongsag,
brennvidd,
skrift,
villmark,
bedrift,
atomvekt,
hotell-lov,
grannsemd,
elvebredd,
rettssak,
fastetid,
mellomtid,
krossmess,
leilegheit,
åtgjerd,
papirvekt,
bandsag, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse jǫrð, from Proto-Germanic *erþō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-. Akin to English earth. See: Old Norse Nouns '
jǫrð', English Nouns '
earth'.
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