Svalbarð

Svalbard Faroese Etymology From fo non Svalbarð, from non svalr cool + non barð edge, brim, thus roughly meaning cold shore. Cognate with is Svalbarði and no - nn Svalbard. Probably a learned borrowing through Norwegian, because the original meaning of the Old Norse word is uncertain, but, according to Nansen and Alexander Bugge, may be the same as the modern Svalbard archipelago. 1925 R. Hennig Von rätselhaften Ländern : Versunkene Stätten der Geschichte Pronunciation fo /ˈsvalpɛaːɹ/ Proper noun fo proper noun n fo Svalbard Q25231 Declension Svalbarð Svalbarð Svalbarði Svalbarðs Derived terms fo svalbarðsgás pink-footed goose References