Helsingfors

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Helsingfors

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Borrowed from Swedish Helsingfors.. First part is the common place name Helsinge. Last part fors (“rapid, waterfall”), from Old Swedish fors (“torrent, stream, waterfall”), from Old Norse fors (“waterfall”), from Proto-Germanic *fursaz (“waterfall, torrent”), from Pre-Germanic *pŕ̥sos, from Proto-Indo-European *pers- (“to sprinkle, splatter”).

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obsolete Helsinki (the capital of Finland).

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@misc{helsingfors_2026,
  title = {Helsingfors},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/helsingfors},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}