"Oslo" meaning in Norwegian Nynorsk

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Proper name

IPA: /²uslu/, [ˈǔ̞s.lû̞], [ˈû̞s.lû̞], [ˈú̞s.lǔ̞], /²uʂlu/ (note: East Norway), [ˈú̞ʂ.ɭǔ̞] (note: East Norway), [ˈú̞ʃ.l̠ǔ̞] (note: East Norway), [ˈou̯ːs.lou̯ː] [Setesdal] Audio: Oslo.ogg
Rhymes: -slu, -ʃlu Etymology: From Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. The name Ósló then comes from older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo and Latin Ansloa), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”) + *lauhō f, *lauhaz m (“clearing, meadow”). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century. Another theory is that the first part comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely, as there would be no explanation for ó- found in Ósló. The geologist Tom V. Segalstad has claimed that it comes from Old Norse ufs (“steep mountainside”), based on the Danicised spelling Opsloe. However, this form was never used in Norwegian, and various borrowings have -n- to signify a nasal vowel, which ufs would not have. Cognates include Faroese and Icelandic Ósló, Dutch Ansloo and (also Low German) Anslo, and Latin Ansloa, Asloa, Osloa (Latinisations). Between 1624 and 1925, Oslo referred to the old town of Oslo, a mediaeval town that burnt down in 1624. When the city was rebuilt, king Christian IV of Denmark named the new city Christiania (later spelling: Kristiania) after himself. During the 1800s, various authors would begin taking the old name back and the city officially changed its name to Oslo in 1925. The location of the old town got the name Gamlebyen (literally “Old Town”), now a neighbourhood in the modern city. Etymology templates: {{root|nn|ine-pro|*h₂ems-|*lewk-}}, {{inh|nn|non|Ósló}} Old Norse Ósló, {{der|nn|gem-pro|*ansuz}} Proto-Germanic *ansuz, {{cog|nl|Ansloo}} Dutch Ansloo, {{cog|la|Ansloa}} Latin Ansloa, {{inh|nn|gmq-pro|*ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ}} Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), {{der|nn|gem-pro|*ansuz||god, deity}} Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”), {{der|nn|gem-pro|*ansaz}} Proto-Germanic *ansaz, {{der|nn|non|ufs||steep mountainside}} Old Norse ufs (“steep mountainside”), {{cog|fo,is|Ósló}} Faroese and Icelandic Ósló, {{cog|nl|Ansloo}} Dutch Ansloo, {{cog|nds|-}} Low German, {{,}} ,, {{cog|la|Ansloa}} Latin Ansloa, {{q|Latinisations}} (Latinisations) Head templates: {{head|nn|proper noun|g=f}} Oslo f
  1. Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Cities in Norway, Counties of Norway, Municipalities of Norway, National capitals, Oslo, Places in Norway Derived forms (demonyms): osloborgar, oslobu, osloensar, osloværing
    Sense id: en-Oslo-nn-name-zVFEG~xW Disambiguation of 'demonyms': 57 8 35
  2. (historical) a mediaeval town to the east of Bjørvika, now inside the modern city of Oslo, Norway Tags: feminine, historical Categories (place): Places in Norway, Places in Oslo Synonyms: Gamlebyen
    Sense id: en-Oslo-nn-name-PiIKJQ9e
  3. ellipsis of Oslo bispedøme (“Diocese of Oslo”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, feminine Alternative form of: Oslo bispedøme (extra: Diocese of Oslo)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Åslo [obsolete], Ósló (english: nonstandard spelling) [dialectal] Related terms: Christiania, Kristiania (english: former names of Norway’s capital city), lo (english: a meadow, often by the water), ås (english: a god, one of the Æsir)
Derived forms: oslobisp, oslobiskop (english: bishop in the Diocese of Oslo), Oslobyen, Oslobygda, Oslofeltet, Oslofjorden (english: the Oslo Fjord), oslofolk (english: people from Oslo), Oslogryta, oslogut (english: boy from Oslo), Osloherad, oslojente (english: girl from Oslo), oslokvinne (english: woman from Oslo), oslomann (english: man from Oslo), Oslomarka, oslomål, oslodialekt [Oslo, dialectal], Oslonamnet (english: the name of the city Oslo), oslosildre (english: Saxifraga osloensis), oslosk (english: of or pertaining to Oslo), Osloskulen, Oslotunnelen (english: the Oslo Tunnel)

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Han berre klagar paa det, at Namnet sidan vardt burtskutlat, med di at Kong Kristian IV i Aaret 1624 «hadde det uheppne Innfallet at umbyta det eldgamle ærverdige Namnet Oslo med det nye, sjølvuppfundne og halvbarbariske Namn Christiania». […] Og detta er vel ogso den rettaste Synsmaaten.",
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          "english": "People buy cabins in Geilo and Gol. They want to stand on slalom and lick some sun. I feel it tingle, I have a lust: I want a cabin in Oslo; there is where I want to be.",
          "ref": "2000, “Hytta I Oslo [Cabin In oslo]”",
          "text": "Folk kjøper seg hytta på Geilo og Gol. Dei vil stå litt på slalåm og slikka litt sol. Eg kjenne det krible, eg har eit begjær: Eg vil ha hytta i Oslo; det er der eg vil vær.",
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          "english": "King Harald had built a merchant town in the East at Oslo, where he often resided; for there was good supply from the extensive cultivated district wide around.",
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      "ipa": "[ˈǔ̞s.lû̞]"
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈû̞s.lû̞]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈú̞s.lǔ̞]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/²uʂlu/",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈú̞ʂ.ɭǔ̞]",
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈú̞ʃ.l̠ǔ̞]",
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    },
    {
      "word": "Oslogryta"
    },
    {
      "english": "boy from Oslo",
      "word": "oslogut"
    },
    {
      "word": "Osloherad"
    },
    {
      "english": "girl from Oslo",
      "word": "oslojente"
    },
    {
      "english": "woman from Oslo",
      "word": "oslokvinne"
    },
    {
      "english": "man from Oslo",
      "word": "oslomann"
    },
    {
      "word": "Oslomarka"
    },
    {
      "word": "oslomål"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Oslo",
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "oslodialekt"
    },
    {
      "english": "the name of the city Oslo",
      "word": "Oslonamnet"
    },
    {
      "english": "Saxifraga osloensis",
      "word": "oslosildre"
    },
    {
      "english": "of or pertaining to Oslo",
      "word": "oslosk"
    },
    {
      "word": "Osloskulen"
    },
    {
      "english": "the Oslo Tunnel",
      "word": "Oslotunnelen"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂ems-",
        "4": "*lewk-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "Ósló"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse Ósló",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*ansuz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ansuz",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "Ansloo"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch Ansloo",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Ansloa"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Ansloa",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "gmq-pro",
        "3": "*ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*ansuz",
        "4": "",
        "5": "god, deity"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*ansaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ansaz",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "ufs",
        "4": "",
        "5": "steep mountainside"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse ufs (“steep mountainside”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo,is",
        "2": "Ósló"
      },
      "expansion": "Faroese and Icelandic Ósló",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "Ansloo"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch Ansloo",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": ",",
      "name": ","
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Ansloa"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Ansloa",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Latinisations"
      },
      "expansion": "(Latinisations)",
      "name": "q"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse Ósló, Ásló f or n. The first element is disputed, but is likely from ǫ́ss, áss (“god; one of the Æsir”), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz. The name Ósló then comes from older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo and Latin Ansloa), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”) + *lauhō f, *lauhaz m (“clearing, meadow”). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.\nAnother theory is that the first part comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *ansaz, but this is unlikely, as there would be no explanation for ó- found in Ósló. The geologist Tom V. Segalstad has claimed that it comes from Old Norse ufs (“steep mountainside”), based on the Danicised spelling Opsloe. However, this form was never used in Norwegian, and various borrowings have -n- to signify a nasal vowel, which ufs would not have.\nCognates include Faroese and Icelandic Ósló, Dutch Ansloo and (also Low German) Anslo, and Latin Ansloa, Asloa, Osloa (Latinisations).\nBetween 1624 and 1925, Oslo referred to the old town of Oslo, a mediaeval town that burnt down in 1624. When the city was rebuilt, king Christian IV of Denmark named the new city Christiania (later spelling: Kristiania) after himself. During the 1800s, various authors would begin taking the old name back and the city officially changed its name to Oslo in 1925. The location of the old town got the name Gamlebyen (literally “Old Town”), now a neighbourhood in the modern city.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "proper noun",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Oslo f",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Ós‧ló"
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Christiania"
    },
    {
      "english": "former names of Norway’s capital city",
      "word": "Kristiania"
    },
    {
      "english": "a meadow, often by the water",
      "word": "lo"
    },
    {
      "english": "a god, one of the Æsir",
      "word": "ås"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Norwegian Nynorsk terms with quotations",
        "nn:Cities in Norway",
        "nn:Counties of Norway",
        "nn:Municipalities of Norway",
        "nn:National capitals",
        "nn:Oslo",
        "nn:Places in Norway"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "His [P. A. Munch’s] only complaint was that the name was later thrown away, as king Christian IV in the year 1624 “had the unfortunate idea of switching out the old honourable name Oslo with the new, self-invented and half-barbaric name Christiania”. […] And this is probably also the most correct way to look at it.",
          "ref": "1912, Ivar Aasen, “Um Namnet Oslo”, in Skrifter i samling, page 204",
          "text": "Han berre klagar paa det, at Namnet sidan vardt burtskutlat, med di at Kong Kristian IV i Aaret 1624 «hadde det uheppne Innfallet at umbyta det eldgamle ærverdige Namnet Oslo med det nye, sjølvuppfundne og halvbarbariske Namn Christiania». […] Og detta er vel ogso den rettaste Synsmaaten.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "People buy cabins in Geilo and Gol. They want to stand on slalom and lick some sun. I feel it tingle, I have a lust: I want a cabin in Oslo; there is where I want to be.",
          "ref": "2000, “Hytta I Oslo [Cabin In oslo]”",
          "text": "Folk kjøper seg hytta på Geilo og Gol. Dei vil stå litt på slalåm og slikka litt sol. Eg kjenne det krible, eg har eit begjær: Eg vil ha hytta i Oslo; det er der eg vil vær.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Oslo (a county and municipality, the capital city of Norway)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Oslo",
          "Oslo#English"
        ],
        [
          "municipality",
          "municipality"
        ],
        [
          "capital city",
          "capital city"
        ],
        [
          "Norway",
          "Norway#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Norwegian Nynorsk terms with historical senses",
        "Norwegian Nynorsk terms with quotations",
        "nn:Places in Norway",
        "nn:Places in Oslo"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "King Harald had built a merchant town in the East at Oslo, where he often resided; for there was good supply from the extensive cultivated district wide around.",
          "ref": "1900, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Steinar Schjøtt, Kongesogur [Kings’ sagas]",
          "text": "Kong Harald lét byggja ein kaupstad aust i Oslo, og sat der tidt; for de var godt for tilførst der, og de var rike bygdir umkring.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a mediaeval town to the east of Bjørvika, now inside the modern city of Oslo, Norway"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bjørvika",
          "Bjørvika#English"
        ],
        [
          "Oslo",
          "Oslo#English"
        ],
        [
          "Norway",
          "Norway#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) a mediaeval town to the east of Bjørvika, now inside the modern city of Oslo, Norway"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Gamlebyen"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "Diocese of Oslo",
          "word": "Oslo bispedøme"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Norwegian Nynorsk ellipses",
        "Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Norwegian Nynorsk terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "bishop in (the Diocese of) Oslo",
          "text": "bisp i Oslo",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ellipsis of Oslo bispedøme (“Diocese of Oslo”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Oslo bispedøme",
          "w:nn:Oslo bispedøme"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "ellipsis",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/²uslu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈǔ̞s.lû̞]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈû̞s.lû̞]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈú̞s.lǔ̞]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/²uʂlu/",
      "note": "East Norway"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈú̞ʂ.ɭǔ̞]",
      "note": "East Norway"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈú̞ʃ.l̠ǔ̞]",
      "note": "East Norway"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈou̯ːs.lou̯ː]",
      "tags": [
        "Setesdal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-slu"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʃlu"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Oslo.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/Oslo.ogg/Oslo.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Oslo.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Åslo"
    },
    {
      "english": "nonstandard spelling",
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "Ósló"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Barcode Project",
    "Christian IV",
    "Old Town, Oslo#Mediaeval Oslo",
    "Oslo Opera House",
    "Tom Segalstad",
    "nn:Oslo"
  ],
  "word": "Oslo"
}

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