Aachen

English

Alternative forms

• Aix-la-Chapelle (dated)

Etymology

From German Aachen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːkən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑkən/
  • (non-naturalized pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑxən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːkən
• Hyphenation: Aa‧chen

Proper noun

Aachen

1. A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Translations

city in North Rhine-Westphalia

• Afrikaans: Aken
• Arabic: آخِن m (ʔāḵin)
• Belarusian: А́хен m (Áxjen)
• Bulgarian: А́хен m (Áhen)
• Catalan: Aquisgrà (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞琛 / 亚琛 (zh) (Yàchēn), 阿亨 (zh) (Āhēng),

• Czech: Cáchy (cs) f pl
• Danish: Aachen
• Dutch: Aken (nl) n
• Esperanto: Aĥeno, Akeno
• Finnish: Aachen (fi)
• French: Aix-la-Chapelle (fr)
• Georgian: აახენი (ka) (aaxeni)
• German: Aachen (de) n

  Central Franconian: (locally) Oche, (elsewhere mostly) Ooche

• Greek: Άαχεν (el) (Áachen)
• Hebrew: אאכן (Aachen)
• Hungarian: Aachen (hu)
• Italian: Aquisgrana (it)
• Japanese: アーヘン (Āhen)
• Kashubian: Oche
• Korean: 아헨 (ko) (ahen)
• Latin: Aquae pl, Aquisgranum n, Urbs Ăquḗnsis f
• Latvian: Āhene (lv) f
• Limburgish: Aoke (li)
• Lithuanian: Achenas
• Low German:

  German Low German: Aken

• Luxembourgish: Oochen
• Macedonian: Ахен (Ahen)
• Marathi: आखेन (ākhen), आखन (ākhan)
• Norwegian: Aachen
• Old Norse: Takn m
• Polish: Akwizgran (pl) m
• Portuguese: Aquisgrano f, Aachen (pt) f
• Romanian: Aachen
• Russian: А́хен (ru) m (Áxen)
• Slovak: Aachen
• Slovene: Aachen
• Spanish: Aquisgrán (es)
• Swedish: Aachen (sv)
• Thai: อาเค่น
• Turkish: Aachen
• Ukrainian: Аахен (uk) (Aaxen)
• Urdu: آخن m (āxan)
• Walloon: Åxhe (wa)

Anagrams

• aenach, Achean

German

Alternative forms

• Achen (obsolete)
• Ayghen, Aechen (obsolete, regional)

Etymology

From Middle High German Āchen, from Old High German Āhha, from a Proto-West Germanic *Ākā (cf. Middle Dutch Âken), from Latin aqua (“water”), referring to the local thermal springs (which are known to have been exploited by the Romans, though their original name is not quite clear).

A derivation from cognate Old High German ah(h)a (“flowing water”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō, as claimed by Manfred Niemeyer’s Deutsches Ortsnamenbuch, is impossible; firstly, because of the old-long /aː/, to which, besides the Standard German form itself, local Ripuarian Oche and Limburgish Aoke clearly attest, and secondly, because of the /k/ in Low Franconian. (On page 23, the Ortsnamenbuch indeed admits that the /x/ in Aachen is due to the High German consonant shift, thereby contradicting itself in a most obvious way.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːxən/, [ˈʔaː.χn̩]

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Aachen n (proper noun, genitive Aachens or (optionally with an article) Aachen)

1. Aachen (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
2. a special district (Kommunalverband besonderer Art) of North Rhine-Westphalia; full name Städteregion Aachen

Declension

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

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Aachen
genitive	des	Aachens, Aachen1
dative	dem	Aachen
accusative	das	Aachen

¹Optionally with an article.

Derived terms

• Aachener
  • Aachenerin

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aachen (“Aachen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːɦɛn]
• Hyphenation: Aa‧chen
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Proper noun

Aachen

1. Aachen (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Aachen	—
accusative	Aachent	—
dative	Aachennek	—
instrumental	Aachennel	—
causal-final	Aachenért	—
translative	Aachenné	—
terminative	Aachenig	—
essive-formal	Aachenként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Aachenben	—
superessive	Aachenen	—
adessive	Aachennél	—
illative	Aachenbe	—
sublative	Aachenre	—
allative	Aachenhez	—
elative	Aachenből	—
delative	Aachenről	—
ablative	Aachentől	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Aachené	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Aachenéi	—

Possessive forms of Aachen

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Aachenem	—
2nd person sing.	Aachened	—
3rd person sing.	Aachenje	—
1st person plural	Aachenünk	—
2nd person plural	Aachenetek	—
3rd person plural	Aachenjük	—

Derived terms

• aacheni

Further reading

• Tóth, Etelka, editor (2017), Magyar helyesírási szótár: A magyar helyesírás szabályai tizenkettedik kiadása szerint [Dictionary of Hungarian orthography: according to the 12th edition of the Rules of Hungarian orthography], Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN. Online version

Portuguese

Proper noun

Aachen ?

1. Aachen (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

   Synonym: Aquisgrano

Swedish

Etymology

From German Aachen, from Latin aquae (“waters, i.e. sources”), referring to the scared springs associated with the Celtic god Granus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːkeːn/

Proper noun

Aachen n (genitive Aachens)

1. Aachen (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)