The story
- Danish · derived fromMalmoghe
- Swedish · borrowed fromMalmö
- English todayMalmö
From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.