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- Swedish · derived fromälv“river”
- English todayElfdalian
From Elfdalia + -an, from Älvdalen in Sweden, literally "river valley," from Swedish älv (“river”) + dal (“valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A linguistic variety of the Scandinavian language continuum spoken in the old parish of Övdaln in Sweden. Full definition →
From Elfdalia + -an, from Älvdalen in Sweden, literally "river valley," from Swedish älv (“river”) + dal (“valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.