Etymograph

English

Malmö

Malmö comes from Danish Malmoghe.

  1. DanishmodernMalmoghe
  2. SwedishmodernMalmö
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2010same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. DanishmodernMalmoghe
  2. SwedishmodernMalmö
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2010same form

Earliest quotation: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: “Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish…”

The story

From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (‘ore’) + høj (‘hill’); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.

Every English word from Danish Malmoghe

Today it means

name A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Danish Malmoghe / Malmö

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