Kristiansand
English
editProper noun
editKristiansand
- A city and municipality in Agder county, Norway.
Norwegian Bokmål
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFirst part from Kristian, after Christian IV of Denmark, the King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 to 1648, who founded the city on the 5th of July 1641. Last part from sand (“sand”), referring to the sandy headland the city was built on, where the river Otra has its outlet.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈkrɪstɪansan/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -an
- Hyphenation: Kri‧sti‧an‧sand
- Homophones: Christianssand, Christiansand
Proper noun
editKristiansand
- Kristiansand (a city and municipality of Agder, Norway)
- Kristiansand (a historical county from 1671 to right before 1700 in Norway)
Derived terms
edit- kristiansander (“a person from Kristiansand”)
- kristiansandenser (“a person from Kristiansand diocese, or from the city of Kristiansand”)
References
edit- “Kristiansand” in Store norske leksikon
- “Kristiansand amt” in Store norske leksikon
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editA Norwegianised spelling of Danish Christianssand, from Christian + sand (“sand”). Named after Christian IV of Denmark who initiated the construction of a “kvadratur” on the place in 1641.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /krɪstjanˈsan(d)/
- (Kristiansand) IPA(key): [kɰɛ̞sjɐ̞nˈsɐ̞nː], [kɰɪstjɐ̞nˈsɐ̞nː]
- Hyphenation: Kri‧stian‧sand, Kri‧sti‧an‧sand
Proper noun
editKristiansand m
- A city and municipality of Vest-Agder, Norway. The sixth-largest city in Norway.
Usage notes
editDue to the foreign origin of the name, using the name of a Danish king, various Norwegian alternatives have been proposed. The most prominent of these are Storesand (literally “Big Sand”), cf. the nearby Lillesand (“Little Sand”), and Otros (“the outlet of the river Otra”), variously spelled Otteros and Oteros.
Derived terms
edit- kristiansandar (“someone from Kristiansand”)
- Kristiansandsfjorden (“the Kristiansand Fjord”)
References
edit- Jørn Sandnes, Ola Stemshaug (1997) Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
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- en:Cities in Norway
- en:Municipalities of Norway
- en:Places in Norway
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/an
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with homophones
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Cities in Norway
- nb:Municipalities of Norway
- nb:Places in Norway
- nb:Historical political subdivisions
- Norwegian Bokmål eponyms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Danish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Cities in Vest-Agder
- nn:Cities in Norway
- nn:Municipalities of Norway
- nn:Places in Vest-Agder
- nn:Places in Norway