Zülpich

German

Etymology

From Old High German Zulpicha, from Latin Tolbiacum (1st century AD). The underlying West Germanic form must be *Tulpik- (perhaps by assimilation); compare attested Latin Tulpiacum. The cluster -lp- remains unshifted in Ripuarian, and West Germanic -lb- could not have become -lp- there. The b-form might underlie in contemporary Central Franconian Zöllech, but older German sources seem to have -p- invariably, so this is probably a later reduction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsʏlpɪç/

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Proper noun

Zülpich n (proper noun, genitive Zülpichs or (optionally with an article) Zülpich)

1. A town in Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany