Jórsalir
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
Jórsalir m pl (genitive Jórsala)
- Jerusalem (a city in Levant; the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel; the claimed capital city of modern Palestine)
- Synonym: Jórsalaborg
Declension edit
Declension of Jórsalir (strong i-stem, ar-genitive, indefinite plural only)
Derived terms edit
- Jórsalaborg f (“Jerusalem”)
- jórsalafari m (“Jerusalem traveller”)
- jórsalaferð f (“journey to Jerusalem”)
- jórsalafǫr f (“journey to Jerusalem”)
- jórsalalýðr m (“people of Jerusalem”)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Jórsalir in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.