Solingen

English

Proper noun

Solingen

1. An independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Anagrams

• noseling, elongins, ingenols, songline, lignones

German

Etymology

From Old High German Solonchon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzoːlɪŋən/

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• Hyphenation: So‧lin‧gen

Proper noun

Solingen n (proper noun, genitive Solingens or (optionally with an article) Solingen)

1. Solingen (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany)
   • 1808, Vollständige Beschreibung der Schwert-, Messer- und übrigen Stahl-Fabriken zu Solingen, im Herzogthum Berg‎^[1], page 13:

     Einige wollen behaupten, dasz die Urväter der jetzigen Fabrikanten aus Steyermark ins Herzogthum Berg gezogen, andere behaupten, dasz dieselben aus dem Elsasz dorthin gekommen seyen, woselbst ein Dorf befindlich ist, welches Sellingen [sic] heiszt, und wovon der Name Solingen seinen Ursprung habe.

     Some people want to claim that the ancestors of the present manufacturers moved from Styria to the Duchy of Berg, others claim that the same came there from Alsace, where a village is located, which is called Sellingen [sic] and of which the name Solingen had its origin.

Declension

Declension of Solingen [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Solingen
genitive	des	Solingens, Solingen1
dative	dem	Solingen
accusative	das	Solingen

¹Optionally with an article.

Derived terms

• Solinger
  • Solingerin

Related terms

• Balingen, Bräunlingen, Böblingen, Büllingen, Clingen, Dillingen, Esslingen, Ettlingen, Geislingen, Hecklingen, Klingenberg, Klingenthal, Leichlingen, Nördlingen, Püttlingen, Pfullingen, Reutlingen, Schelklingen, Stühlingen, Tuttlingen, Überlingen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Völklingen, Waiblingen, Wendlingen, Zellingen