Ósló

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See also: osło, Oslo, and Osló

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (“god”) +‎ ló (“meadow”). Cognate with Icelandic Ósló, Osló and Norwegian Oslo.

Proper noun

Ósló f

  1. Oslo (the capital city of Norway; official name: Oslo)

Declension

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Ósló
Accusative Ósló
Dative Ósló
Genitive Óslóar

Icelandic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (“god”) +‎ ló (“meadow”). Cognate with Faroese Ósló and Norwegian Oslo.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ósló f

  1. Oslo (the capital city of Norway)

Declension

declension of Ósló
f-s1 singular
indefinite
nominative Ósló
accusative Ósló
dative Ósló
genitive Óslóar

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse Ósló.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ósló

  1. (nonstandard or dialectal, Setesdal) alternative form of Oslo

Old Norse

Alternative forms

  • Ásló — in West Norwegian sources

Etymology

From older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”) + *lauhō f (“clearing, meadow”). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.

Another theory is that the first element comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *amsaz, but this is unlikely, due to the u-umlauted ǫ́ reflected in Ósló.

Pronunciation

  • (9th century West Norse) IPA(key):
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key):

Proper noun

Ósló f or n (genitive Óslóar or Óslós)

  1. Oslo (a city in Norway, now inside the modern city of Oslo)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
  • Alf Torp (1919) Nynorsk etymologisk ordbok, Kristiania: Aschehoug
  • Jørn Sandnes, Ola Stemshaug (1997) Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
  • Frode Korslund (1998) “Tolkningen av navnet Oslo”, in Maal og minne (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 64
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