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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish kælda, from Old Norse kelda.
Pronunciation
Noun
källa c
- a source (of information, or other things)
Från en säker källa som även angav sina källor har jag fått veta att Nisses pizzeria är en källa till god kebabsås- From a reliable source, who also gave his sources, I've learned that Nisse's pizzeria is a source of tasty kebab sauce
en inspirationskälla- a source of inspiration
- a spring (where groundwater naturally emerges)
Källvatten tas från en källa- Spring water is taken from a spring
- a well (with some other liquid or gas)
- a source (of a river)
Nilens källa- the source of the Nile
- (mathematics) a source; a point where the divergence of a vector field is positive
Usage notes
The spring/well sense in the original one, but källa is most commonly used as the generic word for source, hence why that sense is listed first.
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