Bolmen
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Possibly derived from Old Swedish *bolmber (“large; expansive”). Compare with the verb bolma (“billow”). Earliest known individual form attested since 1689 as New Latin Bollmen Lacus (“Lake Bolmen”); but part of Old Swedish Bolmsø (“Bolmen island”) since 1293.[1]
See also the lakeside locality Odensjö (literally “Odin's Lake”), which is proposedly derived from a former name of lake Bolmen.[2]
Proper noun
[edit]Bolmen c (genitive Bolmens)
- A lake in south-central Sweden
- A village by the lake of same name in Annerstad parish, Ljungby municipality, Kronoberg county, Sweden.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 43, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
- ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 243, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages