Aachen

Significat (Anglès)

1. (neuter, proper-noun) Aachen (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
2. (neuter, proper-noun) a special district (Kommunalverband besonderer Art) of North Rhine-Westphalia; full name Städteregion Aachen

Conceptes

Aquisgrà

Sinònims

Bad Aachen

Traduccions

Aix-la-Chapelle

Aken

Aquisgrán

Aquisgranum

Aquisgrana

Άαχεν

Aachen

آخن

Aachen

Aachen

Aquae Grani

Aquisgran

Aquisgrano

Urbs Aquensis

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈaːxən/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de alt alemany mitjà: Āche

Heretat de alt alemany antic: Āhha

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: aha

In summary

From Middle High German Āchen, from Old High German Āhha, from a Proto-West Germanic *Ākā (cf. Middle Dutch Âken), from Latin aqua (“water”), referring to the local thermal springs (which are known to have been exploited by the Romans, though their original name is not quite clear).
A derivation from cognate Old High German ah(h)a (“flowing water”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō, as claimed by Manfred Niemeyer’s Deutsches Ortsnamenbuch, is impossible; firstly, because of the old-long /aː/, to which, besides the Standard German form itself, local Ripuarian Oche and Limburgish Aoke clearly attest, and secondly, because of the /k/ in Low Franconian. (On page 23, the Ortsnamenbuch indeed admits that the /x/ in Aachen is due to the High German consonant shift, thereby contradicting itself in a most obvious way.)