Falun
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English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Falun
- A city in Dalarna County, Sweden.
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Saline County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Daniels, Burnett County, Wisconsin.
Swedish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Falun n (genitive Falu or Faluns)
- Falun (a city and municipality of Dalarna County, Sweden)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- 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)
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- en:Cities in Sweden
- en:Places in Sweden
- en:Villages in Alberta
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Alberta
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Unincorporated communities in Kansas, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Census-designated places in Kansas, USA
- en:Census-designated places in the United States
- en:Places in Kansas, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin, USA
- en:Places in Wisconsin, USA
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Swedish/²ɑːlɵn
- Rhymes:Swedish/²ɑːlɵn/2 syllables
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Cities in Sweden
- sv:Municipalities of Sweden
- sv:Places in Sweden