Other forms: fjords
A fjord is a deep narrow sea inlet between steep cliffs. Sail up the fjord, a Norwegian fjord, the head of the fjord.
It is a valley carved by a glacier and then flooded by the sea, which is why the sides are so steep and the water so deep — often deeper inside than at the mouth, where the glacier dropped its load. It can also be spelled fiord.
1nounfjordA deep narrow sea inlet between steep cliffs.
“We sailed along a fjord in Norway, where waterfalls poured down the rocks on either side.”
fjord is an inlet.
Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjordr, from a root meaning a crossing. Ford is the same word.
Proto-Indo-European
*pértus — crossing
Proto-Germanic
*ferþu
Old Norse
fjǫrðr
Norwegian
fjord
English, today
fjord
Built from
From fjord. Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fjǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic ferþu, ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European pértus (“crossing”), from per- (“to carry forth”) + -tus. a doublet of firth and ford and port and fjard.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA