Greifswald
English
Proper noun
Greifswald
- A town, the administrative seat of Vorpommern-Greifswald district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Translations
town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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German
Etymology
From Greif (“gryphon”) + -s- + Wald (“forest”), a calque of Low German Griepswold or its Middle Low German ancestor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡʁaɪ̯fsvalt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Greifs‧wald
Proper noun
Greifswald n (proper noun, genitive Greifswalds or (optionally with an article) Greifswald)
- Greifswald (a town, the administrative seat of Vorpommern-Greifswald district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Derived terms
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