fjät
Appearance
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish fiæt, from Old Norse *fjat, from Proto-Germanic *fetą, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, step”). Distantly related to fot, English foot, German Fuß.
Noun
[edit]fjät n
- (archaic) step
- Synonym: (modern) steg
- 1928, Arvid Rosén, “Natten går tunga fjät”, in Sånger för Skolan:
- Natten går tunga fjät,
runt gård och stuva.
Kring jord som sol’n förlät,
skuggorna ruva.- The night takes heavy steps,
around house and cottage.
On the earth which the sun has left,
dwell the shadows.
- The night takes heavy steps,
- (archaic) footprint
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | fjät | fjäts |
definite | fjätet | fjätets | |
plural | indefinite | fjät | fjäts |
definite | fjäten | fjätens |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- fjät in Svensk ordbok.
- fjät in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Categories:
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped-
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- Swedish terms with archaic senses
- Swedish terms with quotations