Drontheim
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German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Þróndheimr. Compare English Throndham.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Drontheim n (proper noun, genitive Drontheims or (optionally with an article) Drontheim)
- Throndham, Trondheim (a city and municipality of Trøndelag county, Norway).
- 1767, Johann Gottfried Haymann, Carl Gottlob Dietmann, Neue Europäische Staats- und Reisegeographie worinnen die Staaten und Königreiche Dänemark, Norwegen, Schweden und Preussen, samt den Besitzungen der Krone Dänemark in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, ausführlich beschreiben werden., volume 14, page 245:
- Den heutigen Namen hat sie der umliegenden Gegend zu verdanken, welche ehedem Drontheim, die Einwohner aber Drönter oder Trönder geheissen.
- Its current name comes from the surrounding area, which used to be called Throndham, but the inhabitants were called Thronds or Trønder.
- (historical) Trøndelag
Derived terms
[edit]- drontheimisch (“of or pertaining to Trondheim”)
- Drontheimsfjord (“the Trondheim Fjord”)
- Neu Drontheim
Related terms
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