Store Memurutinden
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Store Memurutinden is the eighth highest mountain in Norway, and lies in the municipality Lom
Lom, Norway
Lom is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fossbergom....

, Oppland
Oppland
is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway....

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The name

The first element is the name of the river Memuru (Muru), the last element is the finite form of tind m 'mountain peak
Mountain peak
A mountain peak is the highest part of a mountain; a mountaintop; the summit.Mountain Peak may also refer to:* Blue Mountain Peak, Jamaica* Hole in the Mountain Peak, Nevada, USA...

'. The rivername is derived from the verb mara 'dig' - the first element Me- is from Old Norse
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 mið 'in the middle', because the mouth of the river is almost exactly at the middle of the lake Gjendin.

The word store means 'the big'.
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