Halmstad

English

Proper noun

Halmstad

  1. A town in Halland, in southwestern Sweden.

Translations

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Danish Halmsthat. Prossibly compound of halm (“reed, bulrush”) +‎ sthat (“place”). Originally the name of a now-vanished village near the Övraby church ruin and the river Nissan, before moving 2–3 km south to its present location in the 1320s. First attested in 1295.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhâlmsta(d)/
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Proper noun

Halmstad n (genitive Halmstads)

  1. Halmstad, a town in Halland, in southwestern Sweden
  1. ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon – H, Habblarp–Höör (2016), by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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