Jórsalir

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Old Norse

Etymology

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Proper noun

Jórsalir m pl (genitive Jórsala)

Jerusalem (a city in Levant; the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel; the claimed capital city of modern Palestine)
Synonym: Jórsalaborg

Declension

Declension of Jórsalir (strong i-stem, ar-genitive, indefinite plural only)

masculine	plural
masculine	indefinite
nominative	Jórsalir
accusative	Jórsali
dative	Jórsǫlum
genitive	Jórsala

Derived terms

Jórsalaborg f (“Jerusalem”)
jórsalafari m (“Jerusalem traveller”)
jórsalaferð f (“journey to Jerusalem”)
jórsalafǫr f (“journey to Jerusalem”)
jórsalalýðr m (“people of Jerusalem”)

Descendants

Faroese: Jorsalir
>? Old Swedish: Iōrsala
- Swedish: Jorsala
Norwegian Bokmål: Jorsal

References

Jórsalir in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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