fjeld

Borrowed from Danish fjeld. Doublet of fell.

• IPA^(key): /fjɛld/
• Rhymes: -ɛld

fjeld (plural fjelds)

1. (geography) A rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia.
   • 1847, Alfred Smith, Henry Warren, “A SEATER COTTAGE ON THE FILLE FJELD”, in Sketches in Norway and Sweden, London: Thomas Maclean, via National Library of Norway, unnumbered page:

     Almost every Norwegian farmer possesses some pasture-land high up in the fjeld, sometimes as much as twenty or thirty miles distant from his homestead.

From Old Danish fjal, from Old Norse fjall.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfjɛlˀ]

fjeld n (singular definite fjeldet, plural indefinite fjelde)

1. (geography) fjeld

• bjerg

• English: fjeld
• French: fjeld

Borrowed from Danish fjeld.

• IPA^(key): /fjɛld/

fjeld m (plural fjelds)

1. (geography) fjeld

• “fjeld”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012