Ålsken. Zum -sk- Suffix in schwedischen Seenamen

• Authors: Svante Strandberg

Title variants

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Ålsken. On the suffix -sk- in Swedish lake names

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The article is focused on the suffix -sk-, frequently found in Swedish lake names. The first part is devoted to the lake name Ålsken, interpreted from the Old-Swedish *Olske(r) ‚lake belonging to the valley of Ol (meaning ‚long, narrow valley‘)‘. In the second part other Swedish names including the suffix -sk- are mentioned (e. g. Gersken or Sandsken) nad their word-formation is discussed.

Keywords

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onomastics

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 424-432
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Svante Strandberg

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic