Talk:Gardsjönäs
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Name etymology[edit]
The article states that "The Sami name is Gardejaur, meaning Fence-lake-Headland (Gard-sjö-näs in Swedish)." This seems nonsensical. I find it highly unlikely that the Sami and Swedish names both mean the same thing and also sound vaguely similar, given that Sami and Swedish are not in any way related. My (non-expert) guess is that the Sami name 'Gardejaur' is the original placename (presumably the 'jaur' meaning lake?), and the Swedish 'Gard(sjö)' has been derived from that, and not from any 'fence-lake' construct. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:25, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Greetings, I grew up in this village and also wrote this article many years ago. Gard is likely just a borrowing from Swedish (gård, farmstead/enclosure or yard in English), as to my knowledge it doesn't mean anything in southern Sami. The headland was traditionally used as a natural barrier in order to fence in cattle by the first Sami settlers, hence the suspicion of the Gard part being a reference to this. It can also not be ruled out that the Swedish name predates the Sami name. --90.231.5.59 (talk) 18:28, 21 December 2020 (UTC)