Tromsø

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Norwegian Tromsø.

Proper noun

Tromsø

Tromsø
  1. A municipality of Troms og Finnmark, Norway. The eighth-largest city in Norway.

Translations

Anagrams

Danish

Proper noun

Tromsø

  1. Tromsø (a city in Norway)

German

Etymology

From the Norwegian Tromsø.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʁʊmsøː/
  • Hyphenation: Troms‧ø

Proper noun

Tromsø n (proper noun, genitive Tromsøs or (optionally with an article) Tromsø)

  1. Tromsø (a city in Norway)

Declension
Declension of Tromsø [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
singular
def. noun
nominative das Tromsø
genitive des Tromsøs, Tromsø1
dative dem Tromsø
accusative das Tromsø

1Optionally with an article.

Norwegian Bokmål
View of the center of Tromsø, in Northern-Norway.

Etymology

From Old Norse Trums (“Tromsøya”), possibly from straumr (“stream, current, tide”), from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream, current, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos, *strow-mo-s, from *srew- (“to flow, stream”), possibly from *ser- (“to flow”). Doublet of Troms.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtrʊmsœ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊmsœ
  • Hyphenation: Trom‧sø

Proper noun

Tromsø

  1. Tromsø (a city, an urban area and municipality of Troms og Finnmark, Norway)

Derived terms
  • tromsøbjørnekjeks
  • tromsøpalme
  • tromsøsk
  • tromsøtechno
  • tromsøværing

Descendants
  • → Danish: Tromsø
  • → English: Tromsø
  • → German: Tromsø
  • → Polish: Tromsø
  • → Portuguese: Tromsø
  • → Swedish: Tromsø

References
  • “Tromsø” in Store norske leksikon

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Named after the island of Tromsøya.

Proper noun

Tromsø

  1. Tromsø (a city and municipality Norway)

Derived terms

Polish

Etymology

From the Norwegian Tromsø.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɔm.sɛ/, /ˈtrum.sɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔmsɛ
  • Syllabification: Trom‧sø

Proper noun

Tromsø n (indeclinable)

  1. Tromsø (a city in Norway)

Further reading
  • Tromsø in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Tromsø in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Tromsø.

Proper noun

Tromsø

  1. Tromsø (a municipality of Norway)

Swedish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtrʊmsœ/

Proper noun

Tromsø n (genitive Tromsøs)

  1. Tromsø (a city in Norway)
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