fjor

From Old Norse í fjǫrð, from Proto-Germanic *ferudi (“last year”), from Proto-Indo-European *peruti. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål i fjor and Swedish i fjol.

• IPA^(key): [fjoˀɐ̯], [fjoɐ̯ˀ]
• Homophone: fjord

fjor c

1. only used in the adverbial phrase i fjor – yesteryear, last year

• (rare) (i) forfjor

From Old Norse í fjorð.

fjor

1. only used in the adverbial phrase i fjor (q.v.)

• “fjor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fjor” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse fjǫrð (in prepositional phrase í fjǫrð, from Proto-Germanic *ferudi, from Proto-Indo-European *peruti. Cognates include Ancient Greek πέρυσι (pérusi), Sanskrit परुत् (parut), and Old Irish uraid.

fjor

1. used only in the adverbial prepositional phrase i fjor (“last year”) (q.v.)
2. (in compounds) last year

• “fjor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse (í) fjorð.

• IPA^(key): /fjuːr/

fjor

1. (southern Sweden) only used in the adverbial phrase i fjor – yesteryear, last year

• fjol

• fjorår
• (i) förfjor
• (i) förrfjor