nejd

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • nägd, negd, neigd

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German nēgede, from Old Saxon *nāhitha, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhwiþu.[1]

Noun

nejd c

  1. a surrounding area of nature
  2. an area (more generally)
    Stocholm med omnejd
    Stockholm and environs

Inflection

Declension of nejd 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nejd nejden nejder nejderna
Genitive nejds nejdens nejders nejdernas

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. Hellquist, Elof (1922) “nejd”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 515
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