neman
/ˈneɪmən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A river in Eastern Europe, flowing through Belarus, Lithuania and Russia to the Baltic Sea.
name
A town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Не́ман (Néman), from Middle Russian Немонъ (Nemon), from Old East Slavic Немънъ (Nemŭnŭ), from Old Lithuanian [Term?] (compare Lithuanian Nẽmunas) of uncertain origin, possibly from an Old Lithuanian word meaning "damp, wet" (Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“wet”), sharing Ancient Greek νοτερός (noterós)), or from nemti (“to become silent”), or from Finnic niemi (“cape”).