Greifswald

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English

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Proper noun

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Greifswald

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

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German

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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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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