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gyttja

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English

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Etymology

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From Swedish.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gyttja (countable and uncountable, plural gyttjas)

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

Swedish

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Etymology

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

Noun

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gyttja c

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

Declension

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Declension of gyttja
nominative genitive
singular indefinite gyttja gyttjas
definite gyttjan gyttjans
plural indefinite gyttjor gyttjors
definite gyttjorna gyttjornas

Synonyms

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References

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