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Titel: Äldre inlägg (arkiv) till 2005-10-24
Skrivet av: Ingela Martenius skrivet 2005-10-20, 22:39
Bibi,
Nowhere in the expression gammal som gatan is it stipulated how the gata was constructed.
The word gata is a very old one; it is found before 1521 - when a gata normally was not paved at all. Gata can be found in Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and even in regional English, around York, the Viking Jorvik (where some streets to this very day are called gate!).
Maybe you think of gata as (paved) street in town but the original use was of a road in the countryside, in a small village (practically all farmers lived in villages before the landreforms in the late 18th and early 19th century). It meant road bounded by enclosures or buildings; especially it was used for the road where the cattle was herded on their way to and from pasture. And such a gata was certainly not paved!
Thomas, Ann,
The word SEHÅLL - the version of SEHÄLL Thomas suggested - is not a Swedish word either (I mean, it has never existed in the opinion of SAOB - and those guys know). So the misspelling / misreading is some other word.