Saale

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English

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Proper noun

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Saale

  1. A river in Germany.
  2. (attributive) One of the glaciations of northern Europe.

Quotations

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1993: This applies to the last ice age, the Weichsel glaciation (113 000 to 11 500 years ago), to the Eemian interglacial (133 000 to 114 000 years ago), to the previous ice age, the Saale glaciation, and to the last part of the previous interglacial, the Holstein. — New Scientist 28 August 1993, p.29

Anagrams

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German

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German Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *sélos (“salt marsh”).[1]

Proper noun

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die Saale f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Saale)

  1. Saale (a river in Germany)

References

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  1. ^ Thomas V. Gamkrelidze; Vjaceslav V. Ivanov (15 December 2010). Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text. Part II: Bibliography, Indexes. Walter de Gruyter. p. 581

Etymology 2

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Noun

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Saale

  1. (archaic) dative singular of Saal
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