Hallingdal

Norwegian Bokmål

Stave church from Gol in the Halling valley, ca. 1200. Moved to the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History 1884.

Etymology

From Old Norse Haddingjadalr (“Halling valley”), first part "Haddingja" likely the genitive plural of haddingjar (“inhabitant of the Halling valley”) (the change from Hadd- to Hall- is known from year 1443 in the Diplomatarium Norvegicum), from haddr (“hair on a woman's head”), referring to "the long haired ones", from Proto-Germanic *hazdaz (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *kes- (“to scrape, comb”) + last part dalr (“dale, valley”) from Proto-Germanic *dala- (“valley, dale”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰol-, *dʰel- (“an arch, vaulting, curve, curvature, cavity”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhalːɪŋdɑːl/
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Rhymes: -ɑːl
Hyphenation: Hall‧ing‧dal

Proper noun

Hallingdal

Hallingdal (a valley and traditional district of Norway)

Derived terms

halling
hallingdalsk
hallingdans
hallingdanser
hallingdialekt
hallingdøl
hallingjente
hallingkast
hallingmann
hallingmål
hallingslått
hallingsprett
hallingtakt
hallingvise

References

“Hallingdal” in Store norske leksikon