Läget

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Genitive of läge (“fishing village”). Ultimately borrowed from Danish hellige Arrildz leye (“holy Arild's fishing village”). Later clipping of Arildsläge (“Arild's fishing village”).[1] For further reading, see main entry Arild.

Noun

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Läget c

  1. (up to late 19th c., now archaic) Clipping of Arildsläge (“a village in Scania, Sweden; now Arild”).

References

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  1. ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), pages 24–25, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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