Malmö
English
Etymology
From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Malmö
- A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 300:
- Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.
Translations
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Estonian
Etymology
From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge (malm + høj).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Malmö (genitive Malmö, partitive Malmöt)
Declension
| Declension of Malmö (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Malmö | — | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | Malmö | ||
| genitive | — | ||
| partitive | Malmöt | — | |
| illative | Malmösse | — | |
| inessive | Malmös | — | |
| elative | Malmöst | — | |
| allative | Malmöle | — | |
| adessive | Malmöl | — | |
| ablative | Malmölt | — | |
| translative | Malmöks | — | |
| terminative | Malmöni | — | |
| essive | Malmöna | — | |
| abessive | Malmöta | — | |
| comitative | Malmöga | — | |
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Malmö n (proper noun, genitive Malmös or (optionally with an article) Malmö)
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge, from malm + høj, from Old Norse, from Proto-Germanic, form Proto-Indo-European.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Malmö n (indeclinable)
Further reading
- Malmö in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Proper noun
Malmö f
- Alternative spelling of Malmo
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Gravelly/Sandy Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“gravel, sand”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin. The area originally referenced in the name has not been identified.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Malmö n (genitive Malmös)
Derived terms
References
- ^ 2016, Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, Department of Nordic Languages at Uppsala University, Svenskt ortnamnslexikon, page 207:
- Stadens namn är en ursprunglig sammansättning med → hög i efterleden och dialektordet malm 'sand, grus; sandig eller grusig mark' i förleden. Det avsedda området kan idag inte utpekas.
- The city's name is an original compound with → hög in the second part and the dialect word malm, meaning 'sand, gravel; sandy or gravelly ground,' in the first part. The intended area cannot be identified today.