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See also: oslo, osło, Ósló, and Osló

English

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From Norwegian Oslo, from Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. Another theory is that it comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely. The second element is ló f or n (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhō f, *lauhaz m (compare the suffix -ley in English place-names).

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Oslo

  1. A county and municipality, the capital city of Norway. Formerly called Christiania and Kristiania.
    • 2017 March 13, Linda Geddes, “The dark town that built a giant mirror to deflect the Sun”, in BBC‎[3], archived from the original on 13 August 2021:
      He was drawn to the three-dimensionality of the place: a town of 3,000, in the cleft between two towering mountains – the first seriously high ground you reach as you travel west of Oslo. […] Together with Vitterso, she devised a ‘winter mindset questionnaire’ to assess people’s attitudes to winter in Tromso, the Svalbard archipelago and the Oslo area.
  2. (metonymic) The Norwegian government.
  3. A tiny city in Marshall County, in northwest Minnesota, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Vernon Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Indian River County, Florida, United States.

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Oslo

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Oslo m

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Oslo n (relational adjective osloský or oselský) Oslo n (indeclinable, relational adjective osloský or oselský, demonym Oslan) (less common)

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Oslo

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Dutch

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Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɔs.loː/
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  • Hyphenation: Os‧lo

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Oslo n

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Oslo (accusative Oslon)

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Oslo

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Faroese

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Faroese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Oslo ?

  1. (official) alternative form of Ósló

Finnish

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From Norwegian Oslo.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈoslo/, [ˈo̞s̠lo̞]
  • Rhymes: -oslo
  • Syllabification(key): Os‧lo
  • Hyphenation(key): Os‧lo

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Oslo

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Inflection of Oslo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative Oslo —
genitive Oslon —
partitive Osloa —
illative Osloon —
singular plural
nominative Oslo —
accusative nom. Oslo —
gen. Oslon
genitive Oslon —
partitive Osloa —
inessive Oslossa —
elative Oslosta —
illative Osloon —
adessive Oslolla —
ablative Oslolta —
allative Oslolle —
essive Oslona —
translative Osloksi —
abessive Oslotta —
instructive — —
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of Oslo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative Osloni —
accusative nom. Osloni —
gen. Osloni
genitive Osloni —
partitive Osloani —
inessive Oslossani —
elative Oslostani —
illative Oslooni —
adessive Oslollani —
ablative Osloltani —
allative Oslolleni —
essive Oslonani —
translative Oslokseni —
abessive Oslottani —
instructive — —
comitative — —
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative Oslosi —
accusative nom. Oslosi —
gen. Oslosi
genitive Oslosi —
partitive Osloasi —
inessive Oslossasi —
elative Oslostasi —
illative Osloosi —
adessive Oslollasi —
ablative Osloltasi —
allative Oslollesi —
essive Oslonasi —
translative Osloksesi —
abessive Oslottasi —
instructive — —
comitative — —
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative Oslomme —
accusative nom. Oslomme —
gen. Oslomme
genitive Oslomme —
partitive Osloamme —
inessive Oslossamme —
elative Oslostamme —
illative Osloomme —
adessive Oslollamme —
ablative Osloltamme —
allative Oslollemme —
essive Oslonamme —
translative Osloksemme —
abessive Oslottamme —
instructive — —
comitative — —
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative Oslonne —
accusative nom. Oslonne —
gen. Oslonne
genitive Oslonne —
partitive Osloanne —
inessive Oslossanne —
elative Oslostanne —
illative Osloonne —
adessive Oslollanne —
ablative Osloltanne —
allative Oslollenne —
essive Oslonanne —
translative Osloksenne —
abessive Oslottanne —
instructive — —
comitative — —
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative Oslonsa —
accusative nom. Oslonsa —
gen. Oslonsa
genitive Oslonsa —
partitive Osloaan
Osloansa
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inessive Oslossaan
Oslossansa
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elative Oslostaan
Oslostansa
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illative Osloonsa —
adessive Oslollaan
Oslollansa
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ablative Osloltaan
Osloltansa
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allative Oslolleen
Oslollensa
—
essive Oslonaan
Oslonansa
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translative Oslokseen
Osloksensa
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abessive Oslottaan
Oslottansa
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instructive — —
comitative — —

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Oslo f

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Oslo n (proper noun, genitive Oslos or (optionally with an article) Oslo)

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Oslo

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Oslo —
accusative Oslót —
dative Oslónak —
instrumental Oslóval —
causal-final Oslóért —
translative Oslóvá —
terminative Oslóig —
essive-formal Osloként —
essive-modal — —
inessive Oslóban —
superessive Oslón —
adessive Oslónál —
illative Oslóba —
sublative Oslóra —
allative Oslóhoz —
elative Oslóból —
delative Oslóról —
ablative Oslótól —
non-attributive
possessive – singular
Oslóé —
non-attributive
possessive – plural
Oslóéi —
Possessive forms of Oslo
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Oslóm —
2nd person sing. Oslód —
3rd person sing. Oslója —
1st person plural Oslónk —
2nd person plural Oslótok —
3rd person plural Oslójuk —

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Italian

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Oslo f

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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Latvian

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Oslo ? ({{{2}}} declension)

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Oslo, Norway. View from Ekeberg toward Grefsen.

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From Old Norse Ósló, Ásló, first part from áss (“a god in Norse mythology”) + last part from ló (“meadow”).

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Oslo

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)
  2. Oslo (a city in Marshall County, in northwest Minnesota, United States)
  3. Oslo (an unincorporated community in Vernon Township, Dodge County, Minnesota, United States)
  4. Oslo (an unincorporated community in Indian River County, Florida, United States)

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  • “Oslo” in Store norske leksikon

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Bjørvika in Oslo, with the opera house and Barcode.

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. The name Ósló then comes from older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo and Latin Ansloa), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”) + *lauhō f,[1][2] *lauhaz m (“clearing, meadow”). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.[3]

Another theory is that the first part comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely, as there would be no explanation for ó- found in Ósló. The geologist Tom V. Segalstad has claimed that it comes from Old Norse ufs (“steep mountainside”), based on the Danicised spelling Opsloe.[4] However, this form was never used in Norwegian, and various borrowings have -n- to signify a nasal vowel, which ufs would not have.

Cognates include Faroese and Icelandic Ósló, Dutch Ansloo and (also Low German) Anslo, and Latin Ansloa, Asloa, Osloa (Latinisations).

Between 1624 and 1925, Oslo referred to the old town of Oslo, a mediaeval town that burnt down in 1624. When the city was rebuilt, king Christian IV of Denmark named the new city Christiania (later spelling: Kristiania) after himself. During the 1800s, various authors would begin taking the old name back and the city officially changed its name to Oslo in 1925. The location of the old town got the name Gamlebyen (literally “Old Town”), now a neighbourhood in the modern city.

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  • IPA(key): /²uslu/, [ˈǔ̞s.lû̞], (Rogaland) [ˈû̞s.lû̞], (parts of Trøndelag) [ˈú̞s.lǔ̞]
  • (East Norway) IPA(key): /²uʂlu/, [ˈú̞ʂ.ɭǔ̞], [ˈú̞ʃ.l̠ǔ̞] (phonemic respelling: Orslo[5])
  • (Setesdal) IPA(key): [ˈou̯ːs.lou̯ː]
  • Rhymes: -slu, -ʃlu
  • Hyphenation: Ós‧ló, Ó‧sló

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Oslo f

  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)
    • 1912, Ivar Aasen, “Um Namnet Oslo”, in Skrifter i samling, page 204:
      Han berre klagar paa det, at Namnet sidan vardt burtskutlat, med di at Kong Kristian IV i Aaret 1624 «hadde det uheppne Innfallet at umbyta det eldgamle ærverdige Namnet Oslo med det nye, sjølvuppfundne og halvbarbariske Namn Christiania». […] Og detta er vel ogso den rettaste Synsmaaten.
      His [P. A. Munch’s] only complaint was that the name was later thrown away, as king Christian IV in the year 1624 “had the unfortunate idea of switching out the old honourable name Oslo with the new, self-invented and half-barbaric name Christiania”. […] And this is probably also the most correct way to look at it.
    • 2000, “Hytta I Oslo [Cabin In oslo]”:
      Folk kjøper seg hytta på Geilo og Gol. Dei vil stå litt på slalåm og slikka litt sol. Eg kjenne det krible, eg har eit begjær: Eg vil ha hytta i Oslo; det er der eg vil vær.
      People buy cabins in Geilo and Gol. They want to stand on slalom and lick some sun. I feel it tingle, I have a lust: I want a cabin in Oslo; there is where I want to be.
  2. (historical) a mediaeval town to the east of Bjørvika, now inside the modern city of Oslo, Norway
    Synonym: (modern name) Gamlebyen
    • 1900, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Steinar Schjøtt, Kongesogur [Kings’ sagas]:
      Kong Harald lét byggja ein kaupstad aust i Oslo, og sat der tidt; for de var godt for tilførst der, og de var rike bygdir umkring.
      King Harald had built a merchant town in the East at Oslo, where he often resided; for there was good supply from the extensive cultivated district wide around.
  3. ellipsis of Oslo bispedøme (“Diocese of Oslo”)
    bisp i Oslo ― bishop in (the Diocese of) Oslo

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  • Christiania, Kristiania (former names of Norway’s capital city)
  • lo (“a meadow, often by the water”)
  • ås (“a god, one of the Æsir”)

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  1. ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), “Oslo”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
  2. ^ Torp, Alf (1919), Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard)
  3. ^ Jørn Sandnes; Ola Stemshaug (1997), Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
  4. ^ Tom V. Segalstad (17 February 2018), “Oslo het lenge Opsloe. Men hva betyr det?”, in Aftenposten‎[1]
  5. ^ Hanne Østli Jakobsen (21 January 2013), “Oslo, som i Orslo”, in forskning.no‎[2]

Further reading

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  • “Oslo” in Store norske leksikon

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Oslo

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    Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

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    Oslo n (indeclinable, related adjective oslowski)

    1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital and largest city of Norway)

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    • “Oslo”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • “Oslo”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[5] (in Polish)
    • Oslo in PWN's encyclopedia

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

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      • Hyphenation: Os‧lo

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      Oslo ?

      1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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      Ȍslo n (Cyrillic spelling О̏сло)

      1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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      Etymology

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        Borrowed from Norwegian Oslo.

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        • IPA(key): /ɔslɔ/, [ˈɔslɔ]
        • Rhymes: -ɔslɔ
        • Hyphenation: Os‧lo

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        Oslo n (genitive singular Osla, declension pattern of mesto)

        1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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        • It is sometimes also undeclined.

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        Declension of Oslo
        singulare tantum
        nominative Oslo
        genitive Osla
        dative Oslu
        accusative Oslo
        locative Osle
        instrumental Oslom

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        • “Oslo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

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        Óslo m inan

        1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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        Unknown tone or non-tonal
        The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
        Masculine inan., hard o-stem
        nominative Óslo
        genitive Ósla
        singular
        nominative
        (imenovȃlnik)
        Óslo
        genitive
        (rodȋlnik)
        Ósla
        dative
        (dajȃlnik)
        Óslu
        accusative
        (tožȋlnik)
        Óslo
        locative
        (mẹ̑stnik)
        Óslu
        instrumental
        (orọ̑dnik)
        Óslom
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        • “Oslo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
        • “Oslo”, in Termania, Amebis
        • See also the general references

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        • IPA(key): /ˈoslo/ [ˈos.lo]
        • Rhymes: -oslo
        • Syllabification: Os‧lo

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        Oslo f

        1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)
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        Oslo n (genitive Oslos)

        1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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        Oslo

        1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)

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        Declension of Oslo
        singular plural
        nominative Oslo Oslolar / Oslo'lar
        definite accusative Oslo'yu Osloları / Oslo'ları
        dative Oslo'ya Oslolara / Oslo'lara
        locative Oslo'da Oslolarda / Oslo'larda
        ablative Oslo'dan Oslolardan / Oslo'lardan
        genitive Oslo'nun Osloların / Oslo'ların
        Possessive forms of Oslo
        singular plural
        benim (my) Oslo'm Oslolarım
        Oslo'larım
        senin (your) Oslo'n Osloların
        Oslo'ların
        onun (his/her/its) Oslo'su Osloları
        Oslo'ları
        bizim (our) Oslo'muz Oslolarımız
        Oslo'larımız
        sizin (your) Oslo'nuz Oslolarınız
        Oslo'larınız
        onların (their) Oslo'su
        Osloları
        Oslo'ları
        Osloları
        Oslo'ları

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        • Oslolu (“a person from Oslo”)