Miklagarðr
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Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Made up from mikill (“big, great”) + garðr (“city”), literally “the large city”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Miklagarðr m
- Byzantium, Constantinople (the ancient capital of the Byzantine Empire, in modern Turkey; modern Istanbul)
Descendants
[edit]Some of descendants may be learned borrowings.
- Icelandic: Mikligarður
- Faroese: Miklagarður
- Norwegian: Myklagard, Miklagard
- Old Swedish: *Miklagarþ, *Miklagarth
- Danish: Meglegård, Miklegård, Miklagård, Mycklegaard
- English: Micklegarth
- German: Michelgart