Etymology

Langstrasse

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Today it means: A street and quarter (neighbourhood) in Zurich, Switzerland. Full definition →

German lang + Strasse
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The story

  1. German · derived fromlang + Strasse“long street”
  2. English todayLangstrasse

From Swiss German lang + Strasse (“long street”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.