name
Meaning 1
A municipality of Vestland, Norway.
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Standard Lemma guide
stad
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noun
Meaning 2
town, village
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Usage: South-Africa
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Norwegian Stad.
From Afrikaans and Dutch stad (“city, town”), from Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stad, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh2tis (“standing, position”). Doublet of stead.