flod

From Old Danish floth, from Old Norse flóð, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *pleh₃(w)- (“flow”). Compare Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, English flood, Dutch vloed, German Flut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfloːð/
• Rhymes: -oːð, -oð

flod c (singular definite floden, plural indefinite floder)

1. river
2. (uncountable) high tide

• (high tide): højvande

• (antonym(s) of “high tide”): lavvande, ebbe

• “flod” in Den Danske Ordbog

• flood, floode, flode, flowt, fflood, fflode, vlode

Inherited from Old English flōd, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz.

• IPA^(key): /floːd/
• Rhymes: -oːd

flod (plural flodes)

1. A waterbody or water in general (opposed to land):
   1. A river; a waterbody that moves in one direction.
   2. A lake or ocean; a large open body of water.
2. A flood; a massive or momentous flooding.
3. The rise or peak of the tide; rising tide.
4. The movement of the sea (e.g. tide or flow)
5. (figurative) Something that flows or issues in abundance.
6. (figurative) A rise, growing or increasing.

This word often appears in rhyming collocations with good.

• flodegate

• English: flood
• Scots: fluid, flude

• “flọ̄d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 November 2018.

Inherited from Danish flod, from Old Norse flóð (“flood”), from Proto-Germanic *flōduz. Doublet of flo (“high tide”).

The Danish word (like Swedish flod) acquired the sense “river” through influence of Middle Low German vlôt f, from the same etymon as above, as well as related vlȫt(e) m, from Proto-West Germanic *fluti (“flow”); the latter is cognate with German Fluss.

• IPA^(key): /fluːd/, /fluː/
• Homophone: flo (without /d/)

flod f or m (definite singular floda or floden, indefinite plural floder, definite plural flodene)

1. flooding, flood, deluge

   Synonyms: flom, oversvømmelse

flod m (definite singular floden, indefinite plural floder, definite plural flodene)

1. a large river

   Synonym: (also smaller) elv

2. flow, stream (e.g. of tears)

• “flod” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse flóð.

flod f (definite singular floda, indefinite plural floder, definite plural flodene)

1. a flood, deluge
2. flood tide (incoming tide), high tide
3. a large river

• flodbølgje
• flodhest
• springflod
• syndflod

• (tide) flo (Bokmål)

• “flod” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Originally masculine; later masculine and neuter a-stem
• ᚠᛚᚩᛞᚢ (flódu) — Runic

From Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“flow”). Cognate with Old Saxon flōd, Old Dutch fluot (Dutch vloed), Old High German fluot (German Flut), Old Norse flóð (Icelandic flóð), Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).

• IPA^(key): /floːd/
• Rhymes: -oːd

flōd m

1. flowing of the tide
2. river, stream; water as opposed to land
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Đā ġesēah hē swymman sċealfran on flōde, and ġelōme doppettan ādūne tō grunde, ēhtende ðearle þǣre ēa fixa.

     Then he saw loons swim in the water, and often dive down toward the bottom, eagerly chasing the fish of the river.

3. flood, deluge

Strong a-stem:

• hēahflōd
• wæterflōd

• Middle English: flod, flood, floode, flode, flowt, fflood, fflode, vlode
  • English: flood
  • Scots: fluid, flude
• → Anglo-Latin: flōdus [13th c.] (England)

• fluod

From Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₃tus, from *pleh₃(w)- (“flow”). Compare Old English and Old Frisian flōd, Old Dutch fluot, Old High German fluot, Old Norse flóð, Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).

flōd m

1. river, stream
2. flood, deluge

• Middle Low German: vlōt, vloet
  • German Low German: Flood

From Old Norse flóð, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₃tus. Compare Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, English flood, Dutch vloed, German Flut.

• IPA^(key): /fluːd/

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flod c

1. a river

   Synonyms: å, älv, ström

2. a flood

   Synonym: översvämning

3. a high tide

   Synonym: högvatten

   Antonyms: ebb, lågvatten

• Rivers and streams in Scandinavia are named älv (-älven), å (-ån), ström (e.g. Göta älv, Lule älv, Svartån, Motala ström, Norrström), while flod is used to refer to rivers abroad.

• tidvatten (“tide”)

• “flod”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “flod”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “flod”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• IPA^(key): /flod/

flod (genitive floda, plural flods)

1. frost