Flouernumm
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Luxembourgish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Flouer + Numm, after German Flurname.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Flouernumm m (plural Flouernimm)
- (toponymy) local place name; the smallest area traditionally given its own name
- 2001, Jeanny Freiderich et al., Eng Klack fir eis Sprooch[1]:
- Am Radio hat ech e bëssen den Uz mat deene koppeg-verdäitschte Flouernimm / lieux-dits gemaach, déi ee plazeweis op de Plakate vun enger Stee oder an engem Immobilien-Akt fënnt.
- On the radio I had made a little fun of the weird Germanised place names that one sometimes finds on scaffolding placards or in an estate agent's document.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)