Sauda

• (historical spellings): Søuffde (1610) Søffde (1661), Søfde (1723)

From Old Norse *Sauðar, plural of *sauðr, most likely derived from sjóða (“to boil, seethe”), cf. Swedish dialectal saud m (“spring”) and Low German Sood (“well, pit”). Doublet of Saude, Sauer, Saue, and Saudane.

The modern form likely stems from the plural genitive Sauða, as found in compounds like Sauða sókn, akin to Valle < Valla and Molde < Molda.

• IPA^(key): /²sœʊːa/, (newer, from written form) /²sœʊːda/
• (Sauda) IPA^(key): [²sœ͡ɵː.ɐ̞], [²sœ͡ɵː.dɐ̞]

Sauda m pl

1. a town with bystatus and municipality of Rogaland, Norway
   • 1987, Vestlandsfanden, Bjørn Eidsvåg, “Sauda”, in 3‎^[1]:

     I Oslo har di kongen, Akershus og Karl Johan, / og Haugesund har Dikselen og gamle Haraldsvang. / Trondheim har sin Tryggvason med sitt bronseblikk. / I Sauda har di skiftarbeid og ein gamal stor fabrikk.

     In Oslo, they have the king, Akershus and Karl Johan, / and Haugesund have Dikselen and old Haraldsvang. / Throndham has its Tryggvason with his bronze gaze. / In Sauda, they have shift work and a big old factory.