pomerania
/ˌpɒməˈɹeɪniə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
Example Sentences
- "Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania."
- "Between them hangs the potato kingdom, Pomerania, with its fields of white potato blossoms, tufts of dense forest, and seaside lagoons inhabited by wild swans."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Pomerania, from German Pommern, from Proto-Slavic *pomorьjane pl (“coast dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *pomorьje (“seaboard”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Pommern, *pomorьjaninъ, *pomorьje