English Explanatory Dictionary

Kiel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The capital city of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
  2. A city in Calumet County and Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

Word forms

Kiel

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kiel, named after Kiel Fjord of the Baltic Sea, from Old Norse kill (“gulf, bay”), from Proto-Germanic *kiljǭ, ultimately related to the verb *kīnaną (“to crack, split”). Doublet of kill (“creek”).

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