Etymology

Scharnhorst

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Today it means: Several locations in northern Germany. Full definition →

German Scharnhorst ← Low German Scharnhorst ← Middle Low German Scharnhorst
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*skarną
  2. Old Saxon · derived from*skarn
  3. Middle Low German · derived fromScharnhorst
  4. Low German · derived fromScharnhorst
  5. German · borrowed fromScharnhorst
  6. English todayScharnhorst

From German Scharnhorst, from Low German Scharnhorst, from Middle Low German Scharnhorst, from scharn (“dirty, damp”) + horst (“wooded hill”), from Old Saxon *skarn + hurst, from Proto-Germanic *skarną + *hursti.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*skarną all →

skarnsharn

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.