gerð
Icelandic
/cɛrð/
noun
Definitions
- act, action (usually plural and more often as gjörð (gjörð))
- the act of building, making
- type, make, kind
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse gørð inherited from Proto-Germanic *garwidō.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*garwidō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *garwidō Proto-Germanic
- gärd Swedish
- åtgärd Swedish
- gerð Old Norse
- gørð Old Norse
- illgørð Old Norse
- gjörð Icelandic
- grein Icelandic
- greinargerð Icelandic
- leika Icelandic
- leikgerð Icelandic
- matargerð Icelandic
- matur Icelandic
- ostagerð Icelandic
- ostur Icelandic
- regla Icelandic
- reglugerð Icelandic
- saga Icelandic
- sagnagerð Icelandic
- skap Icelandic
- skapgerð Icelandic
- öl Icelandic
- ölgerð Icelandic
- ölgerðarhús Icelandic
- gerð Faroese
- gærþ Old Swedish