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Sorka.

a river in Engerdal municipality, Innlandet, Norway, flowing west from Sorksjøan into Femunden at Sorken.

5 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

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name/ˈsɔr.ka/[¹sɔr̥.ka]
  1. a river in Engerdal municipality, Innlandet, Norway, flowing west from Sorksjøan into Femunden at Sorken.

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Ultimately unknown. Several explanations have been proposed. The name may reflect an older word meaning “black, dark”; alternatively, it has been connected with surkle (“to gurgle, squelch”), dialectal sverkjil (“whirlpool”), or Ivar Aasen's dialectal verb sorka (“to acquire an ice crust”). Compare the river names Svorka, Sverka and Svarka.

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