gerð

From Old Norse gørð, from Proto-Germanic *garwidō, related to *garwijaną (“to prepare”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃeːɹ]
• Homophones: ger, Gerð

gerð f (genitive singular gerðar, plural gerðir)

1. action, work, act, deed, making

From Old Norse gørð, from Proto-Germanic *garwidō, related to the adjective *garwaz (“prepared, ready”). Compare the doublet gjörð.

• IPA^(key): /cɛrð/

  Rhymes: -ɛrð

gerð f (genitive singular gerðar, nominative plural gerðir)

1. act, action (usually plural and more often as gjörð)
2. the act of building, making
3. type, make, kind

• leikgerð
• matargerð
• sagnagerð
• ölgerð

gerð

1. inflection of gerður:
   1. strong feminine singular nominative
   2. strong neuter plural nominative
   3. strong neuter plural accusative

Nominal derivation from the verb gera (“to do, make”).

gerð f (genitive gerðar, plural gerðir)

1. Alternative form of gørð (“act”)

• Norwegian Bokmål: gjerd m or f
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gjerd f
• Danish: gære

From Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also gera (“to prepare, make ready”), Old Dutch gerwen (“to prepare”), Old English gierwan (“to concoct”).

gerð f (genitive gerðar, plural gerðir)

1. yeast, ferment

• jǫstr m (“yeast”)

• Norwegian Bokmål: gjær m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gjær m
• Danish: gær c

• gerð in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
• “gerð” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *garwiþō.

• gjǫrð

gerð f (genitive gerðar, plural gerðar)

1. gear, harness
2. (plural only) armour

gerð

1. second-person singular active imperative of gerða

• gerð in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on gerð.