FJORD
What does "FJORD" mean?
A long, narrow, deep sea inlet between high cliffs, carved by a glacier.
Meanings
- A deep, steep-walled inlet of the sea formed by the drowning of a glacially carved valley. The ferry threaded its way up the silent Norwegian fjord.
Did you know?
- Norway's Sognefjord runs roughly 205 km inland and plunges more than 1,300 m deep - so deep that its floor lies well below the level of the open sea outside it.
Word origin
From Norwegian 'fjord', from Old Norse 'fjǫrðr' ('inlet, estuary'), from a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'a place one crosses over' - the same root that gives English 'ford' and 'firth'.
Remember it
FJORD = 'F' + 'JORD' - and 'jord' is Norwegian for 'earth', the very land a glacier gouged the fjord into.
A little poem
Cliffs drink their own height,
dark water holds the mountains-
ice wrote this long ago.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the geography student love Norway? Every road trip ended in a cliffhanger by the fjord.
What it teaches
The deepest channels in a life are usually carved by the slow, heavy things that have already passed through it.
Quick facts
What does FJORD mean?
A long, narrow, deep sea inlet between high cliffs, carved by a glacier.
Is FJORD a valid word?
Yes — FJORD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FJORD?
FJORD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FJORD come from?
From Norwegian 'fjord', from Old Norse 'fjǫrðr' ('inlet, estuary'), from a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'a place one crosses over' - the same root that gives English 'ford' and 'firth'.
What can FJORD teach us?
The deepest channels in a life are usually carved by the slow, heavy things that have already passed through it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.