different between river vs fjord

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ryver, river, rivere, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Old French riviere, from Vulgar Latin *r?p?ria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from Latin r?p?rius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin r?pa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Displaced native Old English ?a.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?/
• (General American) enPR: r?v'?r, IPA^(key): /???v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: riv?er

Noun

river (plural rivers)

1. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.

2. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

4. (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
5. (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

Usage notes

• As with the names of lakes and mountains, the names of rivers are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: the River Thames or the Yangtze River. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see river added to the end, as with the Yellow River. It is less common to add river before names than it is with lakes, but many of the rivers of Britain are written that way, as with the River Severn; indeed, British English tends to use "River X" in such cases while American, South African, Australian and New Zealand English use "X River". The former derives from the earlier but now uncommon form river of ~: the 19th century River of Jordan is now usually simply the River Jordan.
• It is common to preface the proper names of rivers with the article the.
• Concerning the reference of its coordinate terms, some people say: you can step over a brook, jump over a creek, wade across a stream, and swim across a river.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tributary (noun)

Descendants

• ? Finnish: river (“river (in poker)”)
• Sranan Tongo: liba

Translations

See river/translations § Noun.

See also

• fluvial
• Category:Rivers

Verb

river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple past and past participle rivered)

1. (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

   Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.

Etymology 2

rive +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??a?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??a?v?/
• Rhymes: -a?v?(?)

Noun

river (plural rivers)

1. One who rives or splits.

References

Further reading

• river in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Noun

river c

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. present of rive

Finnish

Etymology

< English river

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?er/, [?ri?e?r]
• Rhymes: -i?er
• Syllabification: ri?ver

Noun

river

1. (poker) river (fifth communal card in Texas hold'em)

Declension

Synonyms

• viides avokortti, viimeinen avokortti

See also

• joki (“river”)

French

Etymology

From a Germanic source (compare Danish rive).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.ve/

Verb

river

1. to drive/set a rivet

Conjugation

Related terms

• rive

Further reading

• “river” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• virer

Latin

Verb

r?ver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of r?v?

Middle English

Noun

river

1. Alternative form of ryver

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

river m or f

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. present of rive

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

river f

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. (non-standard since 2012) present tense of riva and rive

Swedish

Verb

river

1. present tense of riva.

Anagrams

• revir, virre

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)

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. fjord
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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 ??????)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. fjord

Declension

Related terms

• fjärd

References

• fjord in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fjord”, in Online Etymology Dictionary