Östbo

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish Østbo. Compound of öst (“east”) +‎ -bo (“region; district”).[1]

Proper noun

Östbo ? (genitive Östbos)

  1. (now historical) A hundred in Finnveden, Småland, Sweden.

References
  1. Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 391, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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