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Over time, the spelling often changed to reflect native German pronunciation (Sloothaak for the Dutch Sloothaag); but some names, such as those of French Huguenots settling in Prussia, retained their spelling but with the pronunciation that would come naturally to a German reading the name: Marquard, pronounced French pronunciation: in French ...
IPA/Standard German. < Help:IPA. This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Standard German on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Standard German in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the ...
Ulrich (German pronunciation: [ˈʊl.ʁɪç]), is a German given name derived from Old High German Uodalrich, Odalric. It is composed of the elements uodal- meaning "heritage" and -rih meaning "king, ruler". [1] Attested from the 8th century as the name of Alamannic nobility, the name is popularly given from the high medieval period in ...
Wagner (surname) The surname " Wagner " is derived from the Germanic surname Waganari, meaning ' wagonmaker ' or 'wagon driver.'. The surname is German but is also well-established in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, eastern Europe, and elsewhere as well as in all German-speaking countries, and among Ashkenazi Jews.
This section lists German letters and letter combinations, and how to pronounce them transliterated into the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is the pronunciation of Standard German. Note that the pronunciation of standard German varies slightly from region to region.
A–C. Adam Koch (born 1988), American professional basketball player. Adolf Koch (1896–1970), German school teacher and leader of the Freikörperkultur. Alan Koch (baseball) (1938–2015), retired American professional baseball player. Alan Koch (soccer) (born 1975), South African and Canadian football/soccer coach.
Jeffrey, Joffrey, Geoff, Jeff. Look up Geoffrey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Geoffrey is an English and German masculine given name. It is generally considered the Anglo-Norman form of the Germanic compound *gudą 'god' and *friþuz 'peace'. [1] It is a derivative of Dutch Godfried, German Gottfried and Old English Gotfrith and Godfrith.
There are many widely varying names of Germany in different languages, more so than for any other European nation. For example: the German language endonym is Deutschland, from the Old High German diutisc. the French exonym is Allemagne, from the name of the Alamanni tribe. In Italian it is Germania, from the Latin Germania, although the German ...