Bautzen
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English[edit]
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Bautzen
Translations[edit]
town in Germany
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Alternative forms[edit]
- Budissin (Latinate form, widely used until 19th c.)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German Būdessen (and spelling variants), from Old Sorbian. Cognate with Upper Sorbian Budyšin, Polish Budziszyn. First attested in a Medieval Latin text as Budusin in 1002. The German form is an entirely regular outcome of the Slavic: Postalveolar -š- was borrowed as retracted Middle High German -s-, and Modern German diphthongisation and syncope then yielded Bautzen.
The further origin is uncertain, but probably Slavic, with suggestions including:
- Named after a prince called Budissentius, Budestaus, or alternatively a female *Budiša, from Proto-Slavic *buditi (“to awaken”). Compare names like Budigost, Budimir, Budislav.
- Some sources derive it from the Slavic name of the Ortenburg castle in Bautzen, which is given as Budetzsch, but they do not explain it further. A derivation from Upper Sorbian buda (“hut”) is highly unlikely as this is a Germanic loanword.
- Bautzen legend/folk etymology explains the name by a tale in which a traveling duchess gave birth in present-day Bautzen, during which the rushing husband asked budeli ssen,[1] or perhaps in modern Upper Sorbian budźe syn? (“will it be a son?”).
Compare also Bautzen at German Wikipedia.
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Bautzen n (proper noun, genitive Bautzens or (optionally with an article) Bautzen)
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References[edit]
- ^ Johann Georg Theodor Gräße: Der Sagenschatz des Königreichs Sachsen, 1855, Nr. 611 „Die Sage von der Entstehung des Namens Budissin“, S. 454f.; 2. Auflage 1874, 2. Band, S. 117 f. (Digitalisat auf Wikisource); Roger Rössing: Bautzen VEB F.A. Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig, 1. Auflage 1989, S. 3–4.
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