Ósló

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See also: osło, Oslo, and Osló

Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (god) +‎ (meadow). Cognate with Icelandic Ósló, Osló and Norwegian Oslo.

Proper noun

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Ósló f

  1. Oslo (the capital city of Norway; official name: Oslo)

Declension

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Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Ósló
Accusative Ósló
Dative Ósló
Genitive Óslóar

Icelandic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (god) +‎ (meadow). Cognate with Faroese Ósló and Norwegian Oslo.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ósló f

  1. Oslo (the capital city of Norway)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Ósló.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ósló

  1. (nonstandard or dialectal, Setesdal) alternative form of Oslo

Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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  • Áslóin West Norwegian sources

Etymology

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From older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (god, deity) + *lauhō f (clearing, meadow). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.

Another theory is that the first element comes from áss (hill, beam), from Proto-Germanic *amsaz, but this is unlikely, due to the u-umlauted ǫ́ reflected in Ósló.

Pronunciation

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  • (9th century West Norse) IPA(key): [ˈɒ̃ːs.loː]
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): [ˈoːs.loː]

Proper noun

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Ósló f or n (genitive Óslóar or Óslós)

  1. Oslo (a city in Norway, now inside the modern city of Oslo)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
  • Alf Torp (1919) Nynorsk etymologisk ordbok, Kristiania: Aschehoug
  • Jørn Sandnes, Ola Stemshaug (1997) Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
  • Frode Korslund (1998) “Tolkningen av navnet Oslo”, in Maal og minne (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 64