Etymology

Geiranger

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Today it means: A village in Stranda municipality, Sunnmøre, Møre og Romsdal, Vestlandet, Norway, first settled in the fourth or fifth century. Full definition →

Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk Geiranger ← Old Norse Geirangr
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  1. Old Norse · derived fromGeirangr
  2. Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed fromGeiranger
  3. English todayGeiranger

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.