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Ystad.

a town in Scania, southern Sweden

5 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈyːsta/
  1. a town in Scania, southern Sweden

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Where this word comes from

From an Old Swedish compound whose second element is equivalent to modern stad (“city”); the first one may be a cognate of English yew, from Proto-Germanic *īwaz, *īhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-.

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