flod

From Old Danish floth, from Old Norse flóð, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *pleh₃(w)- (“flow”). Compare Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, English flood, Dutch vloed, German Flut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfloːð/
• Rhymes: -oːð, -oð

flod c (singular definite floden, plural indefinite floder)

1. river
2. (uncountable) high tide

• (high tide): højvande

• (antonym(s) of “high tide”): lavvande, ebbe

• “flod” in Den Danske Ordbog

• flood, floode, flode, flowt, fflood, fflode, vlode

Inherited from Old English flōd, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz.

• IPA^(key): /floːd/
• Rhymes: -oːd

flod (plural flodes)

1. A waterbody or water in general (opposed to land):
   1. A river; a waterbody that moves in one direction.
   2. A lake or ocean; a large open body of water.
2. A flood; a massive or momentous flooding.
3. The rise or peak of the tide; rising tide.
4. The movement of the sea (e.g. tide or flow)
5. (figurative) Something that flows or issues in abundance.
6. (figurative) A rise, growing or increasing.

This word often appears in rhyming collocations with good.

• flodegate

• English: flood
• Scots: fluid, flude

• “flọ̄d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 November 2018.

From Old Norse flóð, compare with German Flut.

flod f or m (definite singular floda or floden, indefinite plural floder, definite plural flodene)

1. a flood, deluge

• flodbølge
• syndflod

From Middle Low German vlot and German Fluß (now Fluss).

flod m (definite singular floden, indefinite plural floder, definite plural flodene)

1. a large river

• flodhest

• “flod” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse flóð.

flod f (definite singular floda, indefinite plural floder, definite plural flodene)

1. a flood, deluge
2. flood tide (incoming tide), high tide
3. a large river

• flodbølgje
• flodhest
• springflod
• syndflod

• (tide) flo (Bokmål)

• “flod” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Originally masculine; later masculine and neuter a-stem
• ᚠᛚᚩᛞᚢ (flódu) — Runic

From Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“flow”). Cognate with Old Saxon flōd, Old Dutch fluot (Dutch vloed), Old High German fluot (German Flut), Old Norse flóð (Icelandic flóð), Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).

• IPA^(key): /floːd/

flōd m

1. flowing of the tide
2. river, stream; water as opposed to land
3. flood, deluge

Strong a-stem:

• hēahflōd
• wæterflōd

• Middle English: flod, flood, floode, flode, flowt, fflood, fflode, vlode
  • English: flood
  • Scots: fluid, flude
• → Anglo-Latin: flōdus [13th c.] (England)

• fluod

From Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₃tus, from *pleh₃(w)- (“flow”). Compare Old English and Old Frisian flōd, Old Dutch fluot, Old High German fluot, Old Norse flóð, Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).

flōd m

1. river, stream
2. flood, deluge

• Middle Low German: vlōt, vloet
  • German Low German: Flood

From Old Norse flóð, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₃tus. Compare Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, English flood, Dutch vloed, German Flut.

• IPA^(key): /fluːd/

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flod c

1. a river

   Synonyms: å, älv, ström

2. a flood

   Synonym: översvämning

3. a high tide

   Synonym: högvatten

   Antonyms: ebb, lågvatten

• Rivers and streams in Scandinavia are named älv (-älven), å (-ån), ström (e.g. Göta älv, Lule älv, Svartån, Motala ström, Norrström), while flod is used to refer to rivers abroad.

• tidvatten (“tide”)

• flod in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• flod in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• flod in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): /flod/

flod (nominative plural flods)

1. frost