Gullkysten.
Gold Coast; a historical coastal region in West Africa, along the Gulf of Guinea, named for the gold trade and corresponding approximately to the coast of present-day Ghana.
Meaning & usage
Gold Coast; a historical coastal region in West Africa, along the Gulf of Guinea, named for the gold trade and corresponding approximately to the coast of present-day Ghana.
Elmina ble et viktig handelssentrum på Gullkysten.
Gold Coast; a former British colony in West Africa, established in 1874 and becoming independent as Ghana in 1957.
Britisk styre på Gullkysten tok slutt da Ghana ble selvstendig i 1957.
Where this word comes from
From gull (“gold”) + kysten (“the coast”), literally “the Gold Coast”. The name belongs to a historical European naming tradition in which stretches of the West African coast were named after important commodities traded there; here it refers to the historical gold trade. The precise language from which the Norwegian formation was immediately modelled is uncertain. The first element gull (“gold”) is from Old Norse gull (“gold”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). The second element kysten (“the coast”) is the definite singular of kyst (“coast”), from German Küste, from Old French coste (“coast, side”), ultimately from Latin costa (“side, rib”). Parallel formations include Danish Guldkysten, Swedish Guldkusten, Dutch Goudkust and English Gold Coast.
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