Drolshagen

German

Etymology

From Old Saxon Drōguleshagan. The second element is the common placename suffix -hagen, formed from hagan (“hedge, enclosure”). The first element is uncertain, but possibly formed as a personal name in the genitive: Drogiles > Drols-. The early form Droileshageno points to something like Drogiles hagan (“the enclosure of Drogilo”), with -ilo a regular Germanic hypocoristic (compare the common Frankish name Drogo, itself possibly related to Proto-Germanic *dreuganą).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʁɔlsˌhaːɡn̩/, /dʁɔlsˈhaːɡn̩/
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  • Hyphenation: Drols‧ha‧gen

Proper noun

Drolshagen n (proper noun, genitive Drolshagens or (optionally with an article) Drolshagen)

  1. Drolshagen (a town in southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Declension

Declension of Drolshagen [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
singular
def. noun
nominative das Drolshagen
genitive des Drolshagens, Drolshagen1
dative dem Drolshagen
accusative das Drolshagen

1Optionally with an article.

References

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20081024141923/http://www.drolshagen.de/standard/page.sys/69.htm
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