Agunnaryd

Inherited from Old Swedish Agundaryd. Of uncertain origin, as there was no village with this name prior the church. The naming order is therefore assumed to be lake → farm → church → village:

• Assumed to ultimately be derived from Old Swedish *Agunde, which was the nearby lake, a compound of agg (“backwards”) +‎ *unde (“lake”), aproximatetly meaning the recalcitrant lake.
• Then from the farm of Ryd (“forest clearing”), which was further specified with the name of the local lake; analogous to Agunderyd.
• Then the newly built parish church, standing alone in the countryside, was named after the nearby farm.
• Then finally given to the village that grew around the church.

First attested in the 1330s as Old Swedish Agundaryd.^[1]

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Agunnaryd ? (genitive Agunnaryds)

1. a parish and village in Ljungby municipality, Kronoberg county, Sweden

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