Etymology

Uppsala

Upp·sa·la
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Today it means: A city and municipality in eastern central Sweden; the fourth largest city of the country. Full definition →

Swedish Uppsala ← Old Norse Uppsalir
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromUppsalir
  2. Swedish · borrowed fromUppsala
  3. English todayUppsala

Borrowed from Swedish Uppsala, from Old Norse Uppsalir (literally “upper halls, upper dwellings”), from upp (“up”) + salir (“halls, rooms”, plural of salr).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.