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However, the English term for the city was adapted from its Low German name, Kopenhagen. Copenhagen's Swedish name is Köpenhamn, a direct translation of the mutually intelligible Danish name. The city's Latin name, Hafnia, is the namesake of the element hafnium. [12]
Below is list of German language exonyms for places in Denmark. This article does not include spelling changes with the same rough pronunciation, names spelled alike, and the predictable sending changes shown below: -ager -bjerg -bøl -borg -havn -lev -sted -ved → -agger -berg -büll -burg -hagen -leff -stedt -vedt
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.
This is a list of personal names known in English that are modified from another language and are or were not used among the person themselves. It does not include: names of monarchs, which are commonly translated (e.g. Pope Francis ), although current and recent monarchs are often untranslated today (e.g. Felipe VI of Spain )
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...
Logo in 2017 Vollständiges Orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, first edition by Konrad Duden (1880). The Duden (German pronunciation: ⓘ) [1] [2] is a dictionary of the Standard High German language, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880, and later by Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, which was merged into Cornelsen Verlag in 2022.