English
Uppsala
Uppsala comes from Old Norse Uppsalir.
- Old Norsec. 800–1350Uppsalirliterally ‘upper halls, upper dwellings’
- SwedishmodernUppsala
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Norsec. 800–1350Uppsalirliterally ‘upper halls, upper dwellings’
- SwedishmodernUppsala
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of upp ‘up’ + salir ‘halls, rooms’
Proto-Germanic *upp ‘up’
Old Norse upp ‘up’
Proto-Indo-European *sol- ‘human settlement, village, dwelling’
Proto-Germanic *saliz ‘house, hall’
Old Norse salr ‘halls, rooms’
The story
Borrowed from Swedish Uppsala, from Old Norse Uppsalir (literally “upper halls, upper dwellings”), from upp (‘up’) + salir (“halls, rooms”, plural of salr).
Every English word from Old Norse Uppsalir
Today it means
name A city and municipality in eastern central Sweden; the fourth largest city of the country.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Norse Uppsalir / Uppsala