Ósló
See also: osło, Oslo, and Osló
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (“god”) + ló (“meadow”). Cognate with Icelandic Ósló, Osló and Norwegian Oslo.
Proper noun
Ósló f
- Oslo (the capital city of Norway; official name: Oslo)
Declension
| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | Ósló |
| Accusative | Ósló |
| Dative | Ósló |
| Genitive | Óslóar |
Icelandic
Alternative forms
- Osló (more common variant)
Etymology
From Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (“god”) + ló (“meadow”). Cognate with Faroese Ósló and Norwegian Oslo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈouːs(t)louː/
Proper noun
Ósló f
- Oslo (the capital city of Norway)
Declension
declension of Ósló
| f-s1 | singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | ||
| nominative | Ósló | |
| accusative | Ósló | |
| dative | Ósló | |
| genitive | Óslóar | |
Derived terms
- Óslóarborg
- Óslóarbúi
- Óslóartré
- Óslóarháskóli (“University of Oslo”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse Ósló.
Pronunciation
- (Setesdal) IPA(key): [ˈou̯ːs.lou̯ː]
Proper noun
Ósló
- (nonstandard or dialectal, Setesdal) alternative form of Oslo
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- Ásló – in West Norwegian sources
Etymology
From older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from *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
- (9th century West Norse) IPA(key): [ˈɒ̃ːs.loː] (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): [ˈoːs.loː]
Proper noun
Ósló f or n (genitive Óslóar or Óslós)
- Oslo (a city in Norway, now inside the modern city of Oslo)
Derived terms
- Óslóarfjǫrðr (“the inner Oslofjord”)
- Óslóherað, Óslósherað
Descendants
- Icelandic: Ósló, Osló
- Faroese: Ósló
- Norwegian: Oslo, Åslo
- → Southern Sami: Oslove
- → Kven: Uslu, Ušlu
- → English: Oslo
- → Danish: Opsloe, Opslo (as a Danicisation of the Norwegian name Oslo)
- → Dutch: Ansloo, Anslo
- → Low German: Anslo
- → Latin: Ansloa, Anslo, Ansloga, Asloa, Asloia, Osloa (Latinisations)
References
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
- Alt 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, page 64