Jórsalir

Old Norse

Etymology

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Proper noun

Jórsalir m pl (genitive Jórsala)

  1. Jerusalem (a city in Levant; the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel; the claimed capital city of modern Palestine)
    Synonym: Jórsalaborg

Declension

Declension of Jórsalir (strong i-stem, ar-genitive, indefinite plural only)
masculine plural
indefinite
nominative Jórsalir
accusative Jórsali
dative Jórsǫlum
genitive Jórsala

Derived terms

  • Jórsalaborg f (“Jerusalem”)
  • jórsalafari m (“Jerusalem traveller”)
  • jórsalaferð f (“journey to Jerusalem”)
  • jórsalafǫr f (“journey to Jerusalem”)
  • jórsalalýðr m (“people of Jerusalem”)

Descendants

  • Faroese: Jorsalir
  • >? Old Swedish: Iōrsala
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Jorsal

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “Jórsalir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 234; also available at the Internet Archive
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