Ostsee

German

Etymology

By surface analysis, Ost (“east”) +‎ See (“sea”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is Middle High German, Old High German and Proto-Germanic term?”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔstzeː/

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Proper noun

Ostsee f (proper noun, genitive Ostsee)

1. Baltic Sea (a sea in Northern Europe, an arm of the Atlantic enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden)

Declension

Declension of Ostsee [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Ostsee
genitive	einer	der	Ostsee
dative	einer	der	Ostsee
accusative	eine	die	Ostsee

Related terms

• Ostseeländer
• Ostseestaaten

Descendants

• ⇒ Russian: остзейский (ostzejskij)

Further reading

• “Ostsee”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)