Svalbard, Spitsbergen (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean) · Spitsbergen; West Spitsbergen (largest island of this archipelago)
eş: Svalbard
köken: From Dutch Spitsbergen, see there for more. Analysable as spitz (“pointed, pointy”) + Berge(n) (“mountains”). The original Dutch has the same meaning.
Archipel entre l’océan Arctique et l’océan Atlantique qui dépend du royaume de Norvège.
eş: Spitzberg
Svalbard (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean) · Spitsbergen (the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago) · a hamlet in Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
köken: Compound of spits + bergen, referring to the “pointed mountains” Dutch navigator and explorer Willem Barentsz sighted on the west coast of the main island. Because Barentsz was unaware of having discovered an archipelago, the name was long used to refer both to the main island and the whole archipelago. The hamlet is attested as Spitsbergen in 1851–1855 and is named after the archipelago. The…
Svalbard (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean)
köken: Borrowed from Norwegian Svalbard, ultimately from Old Norse Svalbarð, from svalr (“cool”) + barð (“edge, brim”).
Svalbard (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean)
köken: Etymology tree Norwegian Svalbardubor. Polish Svalbard Unadapted borrowing from Norwegian Svalbard.
Svalbard (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean)
köken: Compound of huippu (“summit”) + vuoret (“mountains”).
Svalbard, Spitsbergen (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean)
Svalbard (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean) · Spitsbergen
köken: Derived from Dutch Spitsbergen.
aile: Špicberčan, Špicberčanka, špicberský, špicbersky
Svalbard (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean)
Svalbard (the entire archipelago)
Svalbard (an archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean)
köken: From Old Norse Svalbarð, from svalr (“cool”) + barð (“edge, brim”), thus roughly meaning “cold shore”. Cognate with Icelandic Svalbarði and Norwegian 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.
aile: svalbarðsgás