gyttja

English

Etymology

From Swedish.

Pronunciation

Noun

gyttja (countable and uncountable, plural gyttjas)

  1. A mud formed from the partial decay of peat.

Swedish

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Germanic *gutjōn, related to *geutaną (“to pour”).[1]

Noun

gyttja c

  1. watery mud, muck
  2. (geology) a fine-grained, nutrient-rich organic mud, or peat, deposited in lakes and ponds

Declension

Declension of gyttja
nominative genitive
singular indefinite gyttja gyttjas
definite gyttjan gyttjans
plural indefinite gyttjor gyttjors
definite gyttjorna gyttjornas

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ “gyttja”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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