• DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    These days you can’t even tell the name comes from the area. They use old words to describe it. An area with a hill could be called a “Something-bjer”. Bjer means hill and is close to the modern word Berg but if you don’t know about it then you don’t think about it.

    Sure, we could have old barn road. But I am not talking about roads. More like City names, local village names, local area names and such.

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        2 hours ago

        Unless you are from Sweden it’s not that surprising you never heard about “bjer” haha. I only learned about it pretty recently and I am born and raised here 😅 The majority of people probably never think about why places are named the way they are