kärr

 

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From Old Norse kjarr (“copsewood, underbrush, bushes, scrub”), from Proto-Germanic *kerzą, *kerzuz (“scrub, bushes”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵers- (“to turn, bend, twist”).

Cognate with Danish kær (“brushwood, undergrowth, scrub”), Norwegian Bokmål kjerr, Norwegian Nynorsk kjørr (“thicket”), Icelandic kjarr (“scrub”).

kärr n

1. a fen, (less specifically) a bog

Considered a type of myr (“bog”).

• mosse (“raised bog”)

• kärr in Svensk ordbok (SO)
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