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fjortis.

a fourteen-year-old

7 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈfjʊʈɪs//ˈfjʊʁtɪs/
  1. a fourteen-year-old

    colloquial · masculine
  2. a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior, a teenybopper

    colloquial · masculine · slang
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Swedish fjortis (“immature teenager”), from fjorton (“fourteen”) (with the suffix -is, from Latin -is), from Old Swedish fiughertān, fiughurtan (“fourteen”), from Old Norse fjugurtán, fjugrtán, of fjórtán (“fourteen”), from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun (“fourteen”), from both *fedwōr (“four”), from *petwṓr, from *kʷetwṓr of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”) + and from *tehun (“ten”), from *tehunt, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Equivalent to fjorten + -is.

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