osnabrück
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany.
name
A rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany, partially surrounding but not including the city of Osnabrück, which nevertheless serves as its administrative seat.
Etymology
From German Osnabrück, from Old Saxon Osnabrugga (literally “bridge of the Osna”), an old name for the river Hase. This name goes back to an earlier *Ausana, an older Pre-Germanic name for the river, said to be an Old European hydronym, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *av- (“watercourse”), extended with -s. However, compare Proto-Germanic *ausaną (“to scoop up”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-. Doublet of osnaburg.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Osnabrück, Osnabrugga, *av-