English
Flensburg
Flensburg comes from Danish Flensborg.
- DanishmodernFlensborg
- EnglishtodayFlensburg
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- DanishmodernFlensborg
- EnglishtodayFlensburg
A compound of flói ‘gulf, marsh’ + nes ‘point’
Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s ‘nose’
Proto-Germanic *nasō ‘nose’
Proto-Germanic *nasją ‘foothill’
Old Norse nes ‘point’
Every English word from Danish Flensborg
Today it means
name An independent city in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Danish Flensborg / Flensburg