different between fjord vs channel
fjord
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fj?rðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþu, *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to carry forth”) + *-tus (suffix forming action nouns from verb roots). Doublet of firth, ford, and port.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fi???d/, /fi???d/, /fj??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fi???d/, /fj??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Hyphenation: fjord
Noun
fjord (plural fjords)
- A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs.
Alternative forms
- fiord (now chiefly New Zealand)
Derived terms
Related terms
- fjard
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (fiyorudo)
Translations
References
Czech
Etymology
From Old Norse fj?rðr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fjort]
Noun
fjord m
- fjord
Declension
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish fiorth, from Old Norse fj?rðr (“firth, fjord”), from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fjo???]
- Rhymes: -o???
- Homophone: fjor
Noun
fjord c (singular definite fjorden, plural indefinite fjorde)
- firth, fjord, inlet
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowing from Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fj?rðr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fj?rt/
- Hyphenation: fjord
- Rhymes: -?rt
Noun
fjord f (plural fjorden, diminutive fjordje n)
- fjord
- Fjord horse
- Synonym: fjordenpaard
Derived terms
Related terms
- voord
French
Alternative forms
- fiord
Etymology
Borrowed from Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fj?rðr. Doublet of port.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fj??d/, /fj??/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /fj??/, /fj??(?)/
Noun
fjord m (plural fjords)
- fjord
Descendants
- ? Vietnamese: phi-oóc
Further reading
- “fjord” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fjord]
- Hyphenation: fjord
- Rhymes: -ord
Noun
fjord (plural fjordok)
- fjord (a long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs)
Declension
References
- Bakos, Ferenc and Pál Fábián. Idegen szavak és kifejezések szótára (’A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1989. ?ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fj?rðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fju?r/, [fju??]
Noun
fjord m (definite singular fjorden, indefinite plural fjorder, definite plural fjordene)
- a fjord
Usage notes
Incorporated into the names of fjords as -fjorden.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
“fjord” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fj?rðr, from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Akin to English firth.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fju?r/
Noun
fjord m (definite singular fjorden, indefinite plural fjordar, definite plural fjordane)
- a fjord
Usage notes
Incorporated into the names of fjords as -fjorden.
Derived terms
Descendants
See above.
References
“fjord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Norwegian fjord, from Old Norse fj?rðr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fjôrd/
Noun
fj?rd m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- fjord
Declension
References
- “fjord” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Slovak
Etymology
From Old Norse fj?rðr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fj?rd/
Noun
fjord m (genitive singular fjordu, nominative plural fjordy, genitive plural fjordov, declension pattern of dub)
- fjord
Declension
Further reading
- fjord in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish fiordher, from Old Norse fj?rðr, from Proto-Norse *?????? (*ferþuz), from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fju?rd/, [?fju??], /?fjo?rd/, [?fjo??]
Noun
fjord c
- fjord
Declension
Related terms
- fjärd
References
- fjord in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fjord”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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channel
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?æn?l/
- Hyphenation: chan?nel
- Rhymes: -æn?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin can?lis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- The navigable part of a river.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
- 1859, John Call Dalton, A Treatise on Human Physiology
- The veins are converging channels.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A channel stretches between them.
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- We are using one of the 24 channels.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
- (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
Synonyms
- (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait
- (for television) side (dated British, from when there were only two channels), station (US)
- (groove, as in a fluted column) groove, gutter
Derived terms
Related terms
- canal
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (channeru)
- ? Korean: ?? (chaeneol)
- ? Welsh: sianel
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Derived terms
- backchannel
Translations
Etymology 3
From a corruption of chainwale.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
- (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
References
- channel at OneLook Dictionary Search
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