Haugesund
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Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]haug + -e- + sund, with the meaning "the strait by the farm 'Haugar'", first part is the plural of haug (“heap, pile”) from Old Norse haugr (“howe, cairn”), from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“height, hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“hill, elevation”). Last part from Old Norse sund (“swimming; narrow waters (which you can swim across)”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming, sound, strait”), from earlier *swumdan, from Proto-Indo-European *swm̥tóm.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Haugesund
- A city and municipality of Rogaland, Norway
Derived terms
[edit]- haugesunder (“a person from Haugesund”)
- araber (“a humorous term for someone from Haugesund”)
References
[edit]- “Haugesund” in Store norske leksikon
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Haugesund
- A town with bystatus and municipality of Rogaland, Norway
Categories:
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kewk-
- Norwegian Bokmål terms interfixed with -e-
- Norwegian Bokmål compound terms
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/ʉn
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Cities in Rogaland
- nb:Cities in Norway
- nb:Municipalities of Norway
- nb:Places in Rogaland
- nb:Places in Norway
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Towns in Rogaland
- nn:Towns in Norway
- nn:Municipalities of Norway
- nn:Places in Rogaland
- nn:Places in Norway