Brunnen

See also: brunnen

English

Proper noun

Brunnen

1. A municipality of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany.
2. A resort on Lake Lucerne, Schwyz canton, Switzerland.

German

Ein Brunnen

Alternative forms

• Bronn, Bronne, Bronnen, Brun, Brunn, Brunne (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German brunne, from Old High German brunno, from Proto-West Germanic *brunnō, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, whence also Old English burna, Old Norse brunnr; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrun- (“a bubbling forth; a fountain, wellspring, source”).

The form is Upper German, most Low and Central German dialects using Born (now poetic in the standard language). This southern origin also explains the vocalism; the expected form is Bronnen with -u- → -o- before a nasal geminate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʁʊnən/, [ˈbʁʊ.nən], [ˈbʁʊ.nn̩]

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Noun

Brunnen m (strong, genitive Brunnens, plural Brunnen, diminutive Brünnchen n or Brünnlein n)

1. well

   Synonyms: (poetic) Born, (archaic, dialectal) Pütz

Declension

Declension of Brunnen [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Brunnen	die	Brunnen
genitive	eines	des	Brunnens	der	Brunnen
dative	einem	dem	Brunnen	den	Brunnen
accusative	einen	den	Brunnen	die	Brunnen

Derived terms

• das Kind fällt in den Brunnen

Further reading

• “Brunnen” in Duden online
• “Brunnen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Brunnen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891