herad

See also: herað and hérað

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • -hørå (dialectal, Hovde, Tuddal)

Etymology

From Old Norse herað (district; country). See also Norwegian Bokmål herred, Icelandic hérað and Swedish härad.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²hɛːra/, /²hɛra/

Noun

herad n (definite singular heradet, indefinite plural herad, definite plural herada)

  1. municipality
    Voss heradVoss municipality
  2. (in placenames) village
  3. (historical, middle ages, in Eastern Norway) administrative divisions with their own thing and divided into four fjórðungar
  4. (historical, from 1863) a kind of rural administrative division

Usage notes

After a municipal reform in 1992, herad was replaced by the French-derived kommune in official names. However, some municipalities chose to keep herad in their official names, for instance Voss. Herad is also a general synonym of kommune and may be used for all municipalities.

Derived terms

  • heradshus
  • heradsrett
  • heradsstyre (municipal government)
  • herding (person from a herad)

References

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