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Hameln
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German
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Etymology
From de osx *Hamala Hamel (river) Hamel, the name of the river on which the town was built. The river’s name is probably a substantivisation of osx *hamal crooked; compare the English hydronym River Hamble Hamble.Ekwall Eilert English River Names 1928 Oxford Clarendon Press 189 https://archive.org/details/englishrivername0000eile/page/189 The n in the name of the town is a fossilised dative ending.
Pronunciation
de /ˈhaːməln/
de De-Hameln.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Ha meln
Proper noun
toponym
de town/administrative seat dist/de:Hameln-Pyrmont s/Lower Saxony c/Germany Hamelin
Proper noun
surname
de place names
Derived terms
de von Hameln
Descendants
fr Hamelin
en Hamelin
en Hamlin
References