English Explanatory Dictionary

Geiranger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village in Stranda municipality, Sunnmøre, Møre og Romsdal, Vestlandet, Norway, first settled in the fourth or fifth century.

Word forms

Geiranger

Etymology

From Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk Geiranger, from Old Norse Geirangr, from geirr (“spear”) + angr (“inlet”), named for the neighbouring Geirangerfjord.

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