Essen

See also: essen and èssen

English

Etymology

German city and surname, often confused with essen (“eating”), but this is not related. The city's oldest name, Astnide, could be related to Old High German asc (“ash tree”). The surname is from the city.

Proper noun

Essen

1. A major industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.
2. A surname from German.

Translations

city

• Arabic: إِسِن‎ m (ʾesen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃森 (zh) (Āisēn)

• German: Essen (de) n
• Japanese: エッセン (Essen)

• Korean: 에센 (esen)
• Latin: Assindia f
• Limburgish: Esse
• Marathi: एस्सेन n (essen)
• Russian: Э́ссен (ru) m (Éssɛn)

Anagrams

• NESes, SE SNe, enses, esnes, seens, senes, sense, snees

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Dutch

Etymology

• (Gelderland) First attested as essen in 1379-1380. Derived from the plural form of es (“ash, Fraxinus excelsior”).
• (Groningen) First attested as jesse in 1245. Etymology uncertain. The toponym may have been reinterpreted as the plural form of es (“ash, Fraxinus excelsior”). Alternative hypotheses include a derivation from the Biblical name Jesse or a derivation from an unknown prehistoric source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.sə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: Es‧sen
• Rhymes: -ɛsən
• Homophone: essen

Proper noun

Essen n

1. A hamlet in Barneveld, Gelderland, Netherlands.
2. A hamlet in Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛsən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsən

Etymology 1

From Middle High German ëzzen, from Old High German ezzan, akin to Old Saxon etan, compare Dutch eten.

Noun

Essen n (strong, genitive Essens, plural Essen)

1. gerund of essen; eating

   Das Trinken lernt der Mensch schon früh, und später erst das Essen.
   So soll der Mensch aus Dankbarkeit das Trinken nicht vergessen.

   Man learns to drink early on, and only later to eat.
   So man will not, out of gratitude, forget to drink.

2. meal
3. food
4. groceries

   Man sollte mit den Kindern Essen einkaufen gehen

   One should buy groceries together with the kids.

   • 2010 July 28, “Mit Kindern gemeinsam Essen einkaufen gehen”, in Aachener Zeitung‎^[1]:

     Mit Kindern gemeinsam Essen einkaufen gehen

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Declension

Declension of Essen [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Essen	die	Essen
genitive	eines	des	Essens	der	Essen
dative	einem	dem	Essen	den	Essen
accusative	ein	das	Essen	die	Essen

Derived terms

• Abendessen
• Essen auf Rädern
• Essenausgabe
• Essenbehälter
• Mittagessen
• Resteessen

 

Etymology 2

See Esse

Noun

Essen

1. plural of Esse

Etymology 3

In German-speaking countries, the name is often confused with essen, the infinitive of the verb for "eating," as well as sense 1 (“food, eats”), which is always capitalized, further adding to the confusion. The name itself is of disputed origin, found in its earliest form as Astnide, which could refer to a region of ash trees and be related to Esche.

Proper noun

Essen n (proper noun, genitive Essens or (optionally with an article) Essen)

1. Essen (a major industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany)

Further reading

• “Essen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Essen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Essen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Essen” in Duden online
• “Essen” in Duden online
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Essen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891