Sauerland

English Etymology en de Sauerland. Proper noun 1 en region r/Westphalia s/North Rhine-Westphalia c/Germany. en-US Jim Tankersley Who Is Friedrich Merz, Germany’s New Chancellor? The New York Times 2025-05-06 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/world/europe/friedrich-merz-chanellor-who-is.html 0362-4331 Christopher F. Schuetze Mr. Merz is a product of the Sauerland in Germany’s wealthy west, a region that defines his politics and persona. During his campaign, he ran on the slogan “More Sauerland for Germany,” evoking the region’s image as a heartland of the country. https://web.archive.org/web/20250508032853/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/world/europe/friedrich-merz-chanellor-who-is.html 8 May 2025 Further reading German Etymology de gem-pro First mentioned in 1266 as la Suderlande; the -d- started to disappear around 1400. The first part is possibly a corruption of a Westphalian de nds - word for southern: compare de süder-, de Süd, de osx sûðar, all from osx sūth, from de gmw-pro *sunþr. This is more likely than the theory that it is directly from de sauer sour in this sense "poor soil". The second part is related to de Land. Pronunciation de /ˈzaʊ̯ɐlant/ de De-Sauerland.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de ant 3 Proper noun n,es:s.article de hilly region r/Westphalia s/North Rhine-Westphalia Sauerland de Süderland Usage notes There are märkisches Sauerland and kurkölnisches Sauerland. Derived terms de Sauerländer de Sauerländerin de sauerländisch de Hochsauerland See also Latin: la de Suderlande (as in la Henricus de Suderlande) Low German: nds siuerländsk Further reading de Westfälisches Urkunden-Buch. Fortsetzung von Erhards Regesta historiae Westfaliae. Siebenter Band: Die Urkunden des kölnischen Westfalens vom J. 1200–1300, Münster, 1908, p. 563, Nr. 1243: from the year 1266, in Latin and containing the name la Wesselo de Suderlande dative/ablative