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Help[Surname] Re: The name lagerstedt
in reply to a message by Blair Lagerstedt
Lager is camp (English lair). In context this is an army camp, set up by a force of any size. This is a fairly common toponym in central and Eastern Europe (e.g. Kozachi Laheri in Kherson oblast).
Stedt is an archaic Swedish cognate of stead, stadt. The rudimentary meaning is simply place, base. Aside from compounds like instead, bedstead, homestead, farmstead, it's common in settlement names such as Hampstead, Ingolstadt etc.
Stedt is an archaic Swedish cognate of stead, stadt. The rudimentary meaning is simply place, base. Aside from compounds like instead, bedstead, homestead, farmstead, it's common in settlement names such as Hampstead, Ingolstadt etc.
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This name comes from Swedish, so the first element may rather come from Swedish 'lager' which means "laurel (tree)".
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Except the laurel doesn't grow in Sweden. It's Mediterranean. Aside from camp, the other meaning in Swedish, borrowed from German, is storehouse (where things rather than people are laid down). Even if a developer wanted to imply there were laurels, I don't think a lot of people would think of that.
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