Eupen

English Etymology From en de Eupen and en fr Eupen, from en dum Oepen. See de Eupen below for more. Proper noun en A <<city>> in the province of <<p/Liège>> in <<c/Belgium>>; the capital of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Translations Belgian city Dutch: nl Eupen French: fr Eupen, fr Néau formally German: de Eupen n Hindi: hi ऑयपन Korean: ko 오이펜 oipen Limburgish: li Eupe Walloon: wa Nèyåw Dutch Etymology From nl dum Oepen. See de Eupen below for more. Pronunciation nl /øːpə(n)/ nl Nl-Eupen.ogg nl Eu pen Proper noun n en Eupen, nl town r/German-speaking Community province of p/Liège c/Belgium Derived terms nl Eupenaar nl Eupens German Etymology First attested as Oipen in 1213. From de dum Oepen, dum Oipen, dum Oupen, dum Open. According to the prevalent theory from de gmw-pro *opan open. The Middle Dutch spellings indeed seem to point to a back vowel; on the other hand there is no certainty about this and the modern front-rounded vowel would remain unexplained. An alternative theory derives it from gmw-pro *up up, at the top + gmw-pro *-īn. This explains the umlaut, but is still at odds with the dialectal pronunciation [ˈøˑʏ̯pə] ~ [ˈøːpə], which would require West-Germanic gmw-pro au-. Therefore a third theory postulates an underlying gmw-pro *Aupīn, in which gmw-cfr *aup- would be a blend of gmw-pro *auwju floodplain with the hydronym gmw-pro *apa-. The spelling in Eu- appears in the 16th century and is probably a Franco-Flemish representation of [øː]. The contemporary Standard German pronunciation may to some degree be a de 1, but it also approaches the local [øˑʏ̯], which moreover generally corresponds to standard de eu, äu. Pronunciation de /ˈɔʏ̯pən/ de De-Eupen.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Eu pen Proper noun toponym de town r/German-speaking Community province of p/Liège c/Belgium Declension toponym Holonyms de Ostbelgien Coordinate terms de Amel, de Büllingen, de Bütgenbach, de Burg Reuland, de Kelmis, de Lontzen, de Raeren, de Sankt Vith Derived terms de Eupener de Eupenerin References Boileau, Armand: Toponymie dialectale germano-romane du nord-est de la province de Liège, Les Belles Lettres, 1971, p. 117 Niemeyer, Manfred: Deutsches Ortsnamenbuch, De Gruyter, 2012, p. 168