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.
Malmö
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From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge (malm + høj).
Malmö (genitive Malmö, partitive Malmöt)
Declension of Malmö (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — |
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.
Malmö n (proper noun, genitive Malmös or (optionally with an article) Malmö)
Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe, Malmhauge, from malm + høj, from Old Norse, from Proto-Germanic, form Proto-Indo-European.
Malmö n (indeclinable)
Malmö f
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.
Malmö n (genitive Malmös)