Greifswald

English

Proper noun

Greifswald

  1. A town, the administrative seat of Vorpommern-Greifswald district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Translations

German

Etymology

From Greif (“gryphon”) +‎ -s- +‎ Wald (“forest”), a calque of Low German Griepswold or its Middle Low German ancestor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʁaɪ̯fsvalt/
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  • Hyphenation: Greifs‧wald

Proper noun

Greifswald n (proper noun, genitive Greifswalds or (optionally with an article) Greifswald)

  1. Greifswald (a town, the administrative seat of Vorpommern-Greifswald district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Derived terms

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