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hohenstaufen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English

Syllables
ho-hen-staufen
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A mediaeval (11th—14th centuries) German dynasty of Swabian origin, from which came numerous monarchs, including dukes of Swabia and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hohenstaufen, from hohen (“high”) + Staufen (from Staufer (“member of a Swabian dynasty”), from Old High German stouf (“chalice”), related to Proto-West Germanic *staupijan (“to pour”)), first used to distinguish a hill called Staufer in the Swabian Jura from the village of the same name in the valley below. (See Hohenstaufen § Name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Hohenstaufen, stouf, *staupijan

Questions

What does hohenstaufen mean?
A mediaeval (11th—14th centuries) German dynasty of Swabian origin, from which came numerous monarchs, including dukes of Swabia and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.
Where does hohenstaufen come from?
It is traced to German.

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