ort

Pronunciation: /ʊʈː/

“ort” is a Swedish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

locality, place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)
Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.
Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.

Etymology

From Middle Low German ort, from Old Saxon ord, from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“sharp point, place”). Cognate with Middle English ord, North Frisian od (“tip, place, beginning”), Dutch oord (“place, region”), German Ort (“location, place, position”), Danish od (“a point”), Swedish udd (“a point, prick”), Icelandic oddur (“tip, point of a weapon, leader”).

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