English Explanatory Dictionary

Osnabrück

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany.
  2. A rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany, partially surrounding but not including the city of Osnabrück, which nevertheless serves as its administrative seat.

Word forms

Osnabrück

Etymology

From German Osnabrück, from Old Saxon Osnabrugga (literally “bridge of the Osna”), an old name for the river Hase. This name goes back to an earlier *Ausana, an older Pre-Germanic name for the river, said to be an Old European hydronym, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *av- (“watercourse”), extended with -s. However, compare Proto-Germanic *ausaną (“to scoop up”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-. Doublet of osnaburg.

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