Falun

See also: falun and fǎlún

English

Proper noun

Falun

1. A city in Dalarna County, Sweden.
2. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
3. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Saline County, Kansas.
4. An unincorporated community in the town of Daniels, Burnett County, Wisconsin.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Fahlun (obsolete)

Etymology

Based upon a conjugated definite form of Falan, the name of an area west of the Falu River (still used in 1684), such as Old Swedish Falunne (dative) or Faluna (accusative). The name is related to the adjective fal (“grayly/yellowly pale”), originally in reference to either this area or the river itself. A river name *Falan might have referred to the color of the water. The name of the area, potentially containing a noun *fala (“pale yellow dryland”), could have been given due to the yellow ochre deposited by Gruvbäcken, or denoted the local thingstead and marketplace of the Kopparberg region.

Attested since 1400 as Old Swedish (oppa) Falene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²fɑːlɵn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -²ɑːlɵn

Proper noun

Falun n (genitive Falu or Faluns)

1. Falun (a city and municipality of Dalarna County, Sweden)

Derived terms

• falubo
• falubriljant
• falubrännvin
• faludiamant
• faluensare
• faluensisk
• faluit
• falujuvel
• faluknöl
• falukorv
• falulav
• falumossa
• faluröd
• falurödfärg
• falurött
• falustrass
• faluvitriol

 

References

• Mats Wahlberg, editor (2003), Svenskt ortnamnslexikon [Swedish Place‐Name Dictionary]‎^[1], Uppsala: Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022‐01‐18, page 71
• Falun in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• falu in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• fnula