Förde

Meaning

firth, fjord, a long, narrow bay of the sea

Concepts

fjord

fiord

firth

gulf

bay

sound

🔉

bight

cove

Synonyms

Fjord

Bucht

Translations

baie

fiordo

fjord

baia

fiordo

golfo

Förde

baai

fjord

baía

bahía

körfez

κόλπος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfœːɐ̯də/

Etymology

From Low German Föörd(e) (“ford, shallow water, firth”), from Middle Low German vȫrde, byform (perhaps originally plural) of vōrt, from Proto-Germanic *furduz. Doublet of inherited Furt (“ford, river passage”) and of Fjord (“fjord”), from Old Norse fjǫrðr. This latter may also have influenced the sense of the Low German.