Ohrid

Meaning

Proper Noun

• city in southwestern North Macedonia (country).

Origin

• Either borrowed from Macedonian Охрид, from о-- + хрид.
• *It has been proposed by Katičić that the modern name is a modified version of the ancient Greek name, where the transition of "Lychnidus" to "Ohrid" presupposes a characteristic sound development from AlbanianSame development as Nish from Naissos, Shtip from Astibos and Sharr from Scardus, which may have thereby entered Slavic