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dýragarður

dýranimal

+

garðurgarden, enclosure

=

animal garden

which everyone uses to mean zoo

places

Literal glosses are a translator’s liberty, not a rule. This compound may have frozen centuries ago, with its pieces drifting since. If it is wrong, a correction from an Icelandic speaker is the whole point.

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