herad

See also: herað and hérað

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • -hørå (dialectal, Hovde, Tuddal)

Etymology

From Old Norse herað (“district; country”). See also Norwegian Bokmål herred, Icelandic hérað and Swedish härad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²hɛːra/, /²hɛra/

Noun

herad n (definite singular heradet, indefinite plural herad, definite plural herada)

  1. municipality
    Voss herad ― Voss municipality
  2. (in placenames) village
  3. (historical, middle ages, in Eastern Norway) administrative divisions with their own thing and divided into four fjórðungar
  4. (historical, from 1863) a kind of rural administrative division

Usage notes

After a municipal reform in 1992, herad was replaced by the French-derived kommune in official names. However, some municipalities chose to keep herad in their official names, for instance Voss. Herad is also a general synonym of kommune and may be used for all municipalities.

Derived terms

  • heradshus
  • heradsrett
  • heradsstyre (“municipal government”)
  • herding (“person from a herad”)

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.