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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

kjerr.

a small bog or swamp; marsh (an area of low, wet land, often with tall grass)

5 characters1 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/çɛr/
  1. a small bog or swamp; marsh (an area of low, wet land, often with tall grass)

    dialectal · neuter
  2. a small scrub, especially with willows or alder on marshy ground

    neuter
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse kjarr (“copsewood, brushwood, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *kerzą, *kerzuz (“scrub, bushes”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵers- (“to turn, bend, twist”).

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