Hovs hallar

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • Howa Hallar (obsolete)

Etymology

Compound of Hov (“a village”) +‎ -s (“-'s”) +‎ hall (“cliff, stone, flat rock surface”) +‎ -ar (“plural”), literally “the cliffs of Hov”. First attested in 1671[1]

Proper noun

Hovs hallar n (genitive Hovs hallars)

  1. a coastal area with prominent cliff formations on Bjärehalvön peninsula, Skåne, Sweden

References

  1. ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 132, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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