Ósló

See also: osło, Oslo, and Osló

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (“god”) +‎ ló (“meadow”). Cognate with Icelandic Ósló, Osló and Norwegian Oslo.

Proper noun

Ósló f

1. Oslo (the capital city of Norway; official name: Oslo)

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Ósló
accusative	Ósló
dative	Ósló
genitive	Óslóar

Icelandic

Alternative forms

• Osló

Etymology

From Old Norse Ósló, from ǫ́ss áss (“god”) +‎ ló (“meadow”). Cognate with Faroese Ósló and Norwegian Oslo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈouːs(t)louː/

Proper noun

Ósló f (proper noun, genitive singular Óslóar)

1. Oslo (the capital city of Norway)

Declension

Declension of Ósló (sg-only feminine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Ósló
accusative	Ósló
dative	Ósló
genitive	Óslóar

Derived terms

• Óslóarborg
• Óslóarbúi
• Óslóartré
• Óslóarháskóli (“University of Oslo”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse Ósló.

Pronunciation

• (Setesdal dialect) IPA^(key): [ˈou̯ːs.lou̯ː]

Proper noun

Ósló

1. (nonstandard or dialectal, Setesdal dialect) alternative form of Oslo

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• Ásló — in West Norwegian sources

Etymology

From older *Ǫ́sló where the ǫ́ is nasalised (whence the -n- in Dutch Ansloo), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ (*ansulauhu), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”) + *lauhō f (“clearing, meadow”). According to Sandnes and Stemshaug, the name has likely been around since before the first century.

Another theory is that the first element comes from áss (“hill, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *amsaz, but this is unlikely, due to the u-umlauted ǫ́ reflected in Ósló.

Pronunciation

• (9th century West Norse) IPA^(key): [ˈɒ̃ːs.loː]
• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): [ˈoːs.loː]

Proper noun

Ósló f or n (genitive Óslóar or Óslós)

1. Oslo (a city in Norway, now inside the modern city of Oslo)

Derived terms

• Óslóarfjǫrðr (“the inner Oslofjord”)
• Óslóherað, Óslósherað

Related terms

• áss, ǫ́ss (“god”)
• ló (“meadow”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: Ósló, Osló
• Faroese: Ósló
• Norwegian: Oslo, Åslo
  • → Southern Sami: Oslove
  • → Kven: Uslu, Ušlu
  • → English: Oslo
• → Danish: Opsloe, Opslo (as a Danicisation of the Norwegian name Oslo)
• → Dutch: Ansloo, Anslo
• → Low German: Anslo
• → Latin: Ansloa, Anslo, Ansloga, Asloa, Asloia, Osloa (Latinisations)

References

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Alf Torp (1919) Nynorsk etymologisk ordbok, Kristiania: Aschehoug
• Jørn Sandnes, Ola Stemshaug (1997) Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• Frode Korslund (1998) “Tolkningen av navnet Oslo”, in Maal og minne (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 64