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fjord (n.)
1670s, from Norwegian
fiord
, from Old Norse
fjörðr
, from North Germanic
*ferthuz
, from PIE
*prtus
, from root
*per-
(2) "to lead, pass over" (see
port
(n.1)). The etymological sense probably is "a going, a passage."
