herad
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)
- municipality
- Voss herad ― Voss municipality
- (in placenames) village
- (historical, middle ages, in Eastern Norway) administrative divisions with their own thing and divided into four fjórðungar
- (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
Related terms
References
- “herad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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