Indo-European copula copula (with corresponding voiceless and voiced fricatives) existed side by side in Germanic, and the involvement of a separate root "" is unnecessary. The root "*(s)teh-" meant "to stand". From this root comes the present stem of the so-called "substantive verb" in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, "tá" and "tha" respectively. On the absence of the initial s- in Celtic, see Indo-European s-mobile. In Latin, "stō, stare" retained the meaning "to stand", until local forms of Vulgar Latin began to use it as a copula in certain circumstances. Today, this survives in that several Romance languages (Galician-Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan) use it
Gamla stan word "stan" is simply a contraction of the word "staden" ("sta'n"), meaning "the town." In 1957 a station of the Stockholm metro was opened here with the name "Gamla stan". Even though the official name was changed to Gamla stan in 1980, modern Stockholm is occasionally called "The city between the bridges". Stockholm derives its mythological origin from a dwelling place called "Agnefit". As the second element "fit" means 'moist meadow', this place was supposedly located on the western shore of today's Stadsholmen (arguably the only possible location for a meadow at the time). The first element of this name