gerði
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
gerði n (genitive singular gerðis, nominative plural gerði)
Declension edit
declension of gerði
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
gerði
- inflection of gera:
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From garðr, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”).
Noun edit
gerði n
Declension edit
Declension of gerði (strong ija-stem)
Related terms edit
- gerða (“to make a fence”)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: gerði
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gjerde (a fence)
- Jamtish: gjáłe
- Old Swedish: gärþe, gærþe
- Danish: gærde
References edit
- gerði in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.