Hjerkinn
English edit
Proper noun edit
Hjerkinn
- a town on the border between Trøndelag and Eastern Norway. A part of Dovre municipality.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
- Gierchen (archaic)
- Jerkind (archaic)
Proper noun edit
Hjerkinn
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
- Gierchen, Jerkind (Danicisations)
- Hjerdkinn (alternative spelling)
Etymology edit
From Old Norse *Hjarðkinn, from hjǫrð (“livestock, herd”) + kinn (“mountainside”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Hjerkinn f
Related terms edit
References edit
- Jørn Sandnes, Ola Stemshaug (1997) Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Towns in Norway
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Towns in Norway
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Old Norse compound terms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- nn:Towns in Oppland
- nn:Towns in Norway
- nn:Towns in Trøndelag
- nn:Places in Oppland
- nn:Places in Norway
- nn:Places in Trøndelag