Lagan
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English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lagan
- A river in County Down and County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which flows through the city of Belfast into Belfast Lough.
Anagrams
Swedish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish Lagha, derived from Old Swedish lagher (“water; liquid”).First attested in the circa 1300.[1][2]
Town sense; from the train station in Berga parish, which was named after the local posthouse, which was named after the nearby river Lagan. This because the name Berga was already take by the posthouse and station in Högsby parish. First attested in 1893.[2]
Proper noun
Lagan ?
- A river in Jönköping county, Kronoberg county and Halland county, Sweden; which flows into Laholm Bay, Kattegat.
- Synonym: Lagaån
- A town by Lagan river, Ljungby municipality, Kronoberg county, Sweden
- A river in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Derived terms
References
- ^ Lagan in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 184, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages