Svalbard
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Norse Svalbarð n probably through Norwegian. From svalr (“cool”) + barð (“edge, brim”), thus roughly meaning “cold shore”, probably alluding to the treeless landscape mostly covered with grass.
The name was first attested in annales referring to year 1194, but it’s uncertain whether it referred to the modern archipelago. [1] [2]
Cognate with Faroese Svalbarð, Icelandic Svalbarði and Norwegian Svalbard.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsvɑːlbɑː(ɹ)/, (anglicized) /ˈsvɑːlbɑː(ɹ)d/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Svalbard
Synonyms
[edit]- Spitsbergen, Spitzbergen (both dated)
- Greenland (obsolete)
- Grumant (dated)
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- “Svalbard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]Svalbard, CIA World Fact Book 2004 on Wikisource.Wikisource
Spitsbergen in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Spitzbergen in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Svalbard n (proper noun, genitive Svalbards or (optionally with an article) Svalbard)
- (especially official use) Svalbard (an archipelago in the far north of Norway)
- Synonym: (remains predominant) Spitzbergen
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Norse Svalbarð n or Svalbarðr m. See the English entry for more information.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Svalbard
- Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, to the north of Norway)
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Norse Svalbarð n or Svalbarðr m, from svalr (“cool”) + barð (“edge, brim”), thus roughly meaning “cold shore”. See the English entry for more information.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Svalbard n
- Svalbard (an archipelago in the far north of Norway)
Derived terms
[edit]- svalbardgås (“pink-footed goose”)
- svalbarding (“someone from Svalbard”)
- svalbardkol
- svalbardlaks (“arctic char”, literally “Svalbard salmon”)
- svalbardlomvi (“thick-billed murre”)
- Svalbardlova (“the Svalbard Act”)
- svalbardløn
- svalbardrein (“Svalbard reindeer”)
- Svalbardrådet
- svalbardteiste, svalbardteist (“Cepphus grylle mandtii”)
- Svalbardtraktaten (“the Svalbard Treaty”)
- svalbardull, svalbardmyrull (“Eriophorum sorensenii”)
- svalbardvalmue (“Papaver dahlianum”)
Related terms
[edit]- bard (“edge”)
- Grumant (dated)
- Spitsbergen
- sval (“cool”)
- Vestspitsbergen
Polish
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Svalbard m
- Svalbard (group of islands in the Arctic)
Declension
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nominative | Svalbard |
genitive | Svalbardu |
dative | Svalbardowi |
accusative | Svalbard |
instrumental | Svalbardem |
locative | Svalbardzie |
vocative | Svalbardzie |
Further reading
[edit]- Svalbard in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Svalbard f
- Svalbard (an archipelago and territory of Norway in the Arctic Ocean)
- English terms borrowed from Old Norse
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- English 2-syllable words
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- English uncountable nouns
- en:Islands
- German 2-syllable words
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- German neuter nouns
- de:Islands
- de:Places in Norway
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Islands
- nb:Norway
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Old Norse
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
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- nn:Islands
- nn:Places in Norway
- Polish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/albart
- Rhymes:Polish/albart/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
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- pt:Islands
- pt:Territories of Norway
- pt:Places in Norway