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Skagerrak
The Skagerrak is a strait running between the southeast coast of Norway, the southwest coast of Sweden, and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea area, which leads to the Baltic Sea.
==Name==
The meaning of ''Skagerrak'' is most likely the Skagen Channel/Straight. Skagen is a town near the northern cape of Denmark (The Skaw). ''Rak'' means 'straight waterway' (compare the Damrak in Amsterdam); it is cognate with 'reach'.〔Nudansk Ordbog (1993), 15th edition, 2nd reprint, Copenhagen: Politikens Forlag, entry ''Skagerrak''.〕〔Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (2004), CD-ROM edition, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, entry ''Skagerrak''.〕 The ultimate source of this syllable is the Proto-Indo-European root
*reg-, 'straight'. ''Rak'' means 'straight' as in 'straight ahead' in both modern Norwegian and Swedish. "Råk" in modern Norwegian refers to a channel or opening of water in an otherwise ice covered body of water. There is no evidence to suggest a connection with the modern Danish word ''rak'' (meaning rabble or riff-raff). (Kattegat for its etymology, in which ''gat'' means gate or hole. )
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