Baggböle

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of Bagge (“male name”) +‎ böle (“living place; farm”), in the sense Bagge's Place. Most likely referring to an aside lying farm. Attested since 1530–1531.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɑɡˌbøːlɛ/

Proper noun

Baggböle ? (genitive Baggböles)

  1. a village in Umeå municipality, Västerbotten county, Sweden

Derived terms

  • baggböla (“illegally log”, verb)
  • baggböleri (“illegal logging”, noun)

References

  1. ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 32, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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