fjärdingsväg
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From fjärding (“quarter (archaic)”) + -s- + väg (“way”), from being a quarter of an old Swedish mile (10688 m). A modern Scandinavian mile (mil) is 10 kilometers.
Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fjerdingsveg
Noun edit
fjärdingsväg c
- (historical) an old Scandinavian unit of length, which in Sweden was equal to 2672 m (a quarter of an old Swedish mile and approximately a quarter of a modern Scandinavian mile, or around half a league)
Usage notes edit
Sometimes used for (jocular) archaizing, like how fortnight might be used in English.
Declension edit
| Declension of fjärdingsväg | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | fjärdingsväg | fjärdingsväg | — | — |
| Genitive | fjärdingsvägs | fjärdingsvägs | — | — |