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Eid

Eid

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A name for villages and a former municipality in western Norway
  • proper noun
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Surface Forms

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Etymology

Eid as a place name in Norway comes from the old Norse word Eið, which means 'narrow land between two waters', so villages called Eid are often by fjords where the land is thin and boats could be moved across.