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Sola.

a municipality of Rogaland, Norway

4 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

name/²suː.la/[ˈsûː.lǎ]
  1. a municipality of Rogaland, Norway

Where this word comes from

From Old Norse Sóli, with the inflected form Sóla also attested. The further origin of the name is uncertain. It may originally have been an old fjord name. A tentative proposal connects it with svelle (“to swell”), possibly referring to the slight elevation in the landscape around the medieval church at Sola.

name/¹suː.la/[ˈsùː.lǎ]
  1. the Sun, the star at the centre of the Solar System

Where this word comes from

Capitalized form of sola, the feminine definite singular of sol (“sun”), used as a proper name for the Sun.

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