Mycklegaard
Danish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Old Norse Miklagarðr (literally “the large city”). From a popular ballad collection "200 Viser om Konger, Kæmper og andre" (1787 or 1695) or its earlier version from 1591.
Proper noun
editMycklegaard m (archaic, poetical)
- Byzantium, Constantinople (a city in Turkey; ancient capital of the Byzantine Empire; modern Istanbul)
- Synonyms: (historical) Konstantinopel, Istanbul
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- Danish terms borrowed from Old Norse
- Danish learned borrowings from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish terms spelled with C
- Danish masculine nouns
- Danish archaic terms
- da:Istanbul
- da:Cities in Turkey
- da:Places in Turkey
- da:Ancient settlements
- da:Historical capitals