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gyttja

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Etymology edit

From Swedish.

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gyttja (countable and uncountable, plural gyttjas)

  1. A mud formed from the partial decay of peat.

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Probably from Proto-Germanic *gutjōn, related to *geutaną (“to pour”).[1]

Noun edit

gyttja c

  1. watery mud, muck
  2. (geology) a fine-grained, nutrient-rich organic mud, or peat, deposited in lakes and ponds

Declension edit

Declension of gyttja 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gyttja gyttjan gyttjor gyttjorna
Genitive gyttjas gyttjans gyttjors gyttjornas

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References edit

  1. ^ “gyttja”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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