Agder

Agder

1. A county in southern Norway, formed on 1 January 2020 on the merger of Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder counties.

• grade, garde, Degar, EDGAR, radge, Dager, raged, Gared, greda, Edgar, Adger, Gerda

• Agdir (Midlandsnormalen)

Inherited from Old Norse Agðir f pl, from a singular form *Ǫgð, from Proto-Germanic *Agiðō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Cognate with Old English eg(e)de, Old High German egida, and Old Welsh ocet (> Welsh oged (“harrow”)).

• IPA^(key): /²aɡdər/, (newer) /¹aɡdər/

Agder f pl

1. a region of Southern Norway
2. a county of Southern Norway, until 2020 split into Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder

The traditional preposition for Agder is på (“on”); though i (“in”) has become more common in modern time when referring to the county.

• Jørn Sandnes, Ola Stemshaug (1997) Norsk stadnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “Agðir”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)