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Osnabrück
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English
,+ (district)
Etymology
From en de Osnabrück, from en osx Osnabrugga bridge of the Osna, an old name for the river Hase. This name goes back to an earlier gem-pro *Ausana, an older Pre-Germanic name for the river, said to be an Old European hydronym, ultimately from en ine-pro *av- watercourse, extended with -s.Udolph, Jürgen (1999) “Osnabrück”, in Wolfgang Schlüter & Rainer Wiegels (eds.), Rom, Germanien und die Ausgrabungen von Kalkriese, Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch, page 566. However, compare gem-pro *ausaną to scoop up, from ine-pro *h₂ews- draw.Koch, John T. (2020) Celto-Germanic: Later Prehistory and Post-Proto-Indo-European Vocabulary in the North and West, Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, page 33.
en osnaburg.
Proper noun
en independent city s/Lower Saxony c/Germany.
en rural district s/Lower Saxony c/Germany ;, partially surrounding but not including the city of Osnabrück, which nevertheless serves as its administrative seat.
Translations
city in Lower Saxony
Dutch: nl Osnabrück, nl Osnabrugge, nl Osenbrugge
Esperanto: eo Osnabruko
German: de Osnabrück n, de Osnabrick n Volhynian German
Hebrew: he אוסנבריק
Hindi: hi ऑस्नाब्रुक
Lithuanian: lt Osnabriukas
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Ossenbrügge n
Marathi: mr ऑस्नाब्रुक
Polish: pl Osnabrück m-in
Russian: ru Оснабрю́к
References
German
de:,Landkreis +
Etymology
From de osx Osnabrugga bridge of the Osna, an old name for the river Hase.
Pronunciation
de /ˌɔsnaˈbʁʏk/
de De-Osnabrück.ogg
de De-Osnabrück2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Os na brück
Proper noun
toponym
de independent city s/Lower Saxony c/Germany Osnabrück
de rural district s/Lower Saxony ;, partially surrounding but not including the city of Osnabrück, which nevertheless serves as its administrative seat
Declension
toponym
Derived terms
de Osnabrücker
de Osnabrückerin
de osnabrückisch
Related terms
de Bersenbrück, de Quakenbrück, de Bingerbrück, de Delbrück, de Königsbrück
de Osnabrügge, de Coppenbrügge, de Nienbrügge, de Ravensbrück, de Wiedenbrück
de terms suffixed with -brück