ort.
locality, place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
Meaning & usage
locality, place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)
clipping of förort (“suburb; smaller urban area in close proximity to a larger city”, literally “pre-locality”) Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.
clipping of förort (“suburb; smaller urban area in close proximity to a larger city”, literally “pre-locality”) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.
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Where this word comes from
From Middle Low German ort, from Old Saxon ord, from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“sharp point, place”). Cognate with Middle English ord, North Frisian od (“tip, place, beginning”), Dutch oord (“place, region”), German Ort (“location, place, position”), Danish od (“a point”), Swedish udd (“a point, prick”), Icelandic oddur (“tip, point of a weapon, leader”).
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