fjortis

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Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish fjortis (“immature teenager”), from fjorton (“fourteen”) (with the suffix -is, from Latin -is), from Old Swedish fiughertān, fiughurtan (“fourteen”), from Old Norse fjugurtán, fjugrtán, of fjórtán (“fourteen”), from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun (“fourteen”), from both *fedwōr (“four”), from *petwṓr, from *kʷetwṓr of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”) + and from *tehun (“ten”), from *tehunt, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Equivalent to fjorten +‎ -is.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfjʊʈɪs/, /ˈfjʊʁtɪs/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪs
  • Hyphenation: fjor‧tis

Noun

fjortis m (definite singular fjortisen, indefinite plural fjortiser, definite plural fjortisene)

  1. (colloquial) a fourteen-year-old
    • 2001, Jon Michelet, Den frosne kvinnen:
      den belgiske kureren fikk fjorten [år i fengsel]. Det er så lang tid som det tar å bli fjortis, og en fjortis er nesten voksen, har levd et lite liv
      the Belgian courier received fourteen . It's as long as it takes to be a fourteen-year-old, and a fourteen-year-old is almost an adult, has lived a short life
  2. (colloquial, slang) a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior, a teenybopper
    • 1991 July 13, Dagbladet, page 7:
      de tre [intervjuede 17-åringene] forteller at de unngår disko hvor det vanker «fjortiser»
      the three say that they avoid discos where "fourteen-year-olds" are common
    • 1997, Morten Jørgensen, Kongen av København, page 126:
      [han] kom til å dø av ecstasy mens han stirra på en navlebar fjortis
      would die of ecstasy while staring at a bare-bellied teenybopper
    • 2004, Frode Øverli, Pondus. Flar firer, page 135:
      trøst deg med at den dagen det blir hipt å være fjortis med briller og kviser vil du bli sett på som en trendsetter
      take comfort in the fact that the day it gets hip to be a teenybopper with glasses and pimples you will be seen as a trendsetter

See also

References

Swedish

FWOTD – 28 October 2014

Etymology

Clipping of fjorton (“fourteen”) +‎ -is.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfjoːʈɪs/, /ˈfjuːʈɪs/

Noun

fjortis c

  1. (colloquial) a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior
    • 2001 February 18, Sara Gemzell, “Fjortisuppror”, in Aftonbladet:
      För vuxna är lite dåliga på lyssna på fjortisar när de vill föra fram sina åsikter.
      Because adults are a bit bad at listening to fjortisar when they want to express their opinions.

Declension

Declension of fjortis 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fjortis fjortisen fjortisar fjortisarna
Genitive fjortis fjortisens fjortisars fjortisarnas

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Norwegian Bokmål: fjortis

See also

References

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