Aar

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Etymology

From GermanCategory:English terms borrowed from German#AARCategory:English terms derived from German#AAR Aare, probably from a CelticCategory:English terms derived from Celtic languages#AAR language.

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AarCategory:English lemmas#AARCategory:English proper nouns#AARCategory:English uncountable nouns#AARCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AARCategory:Pages with entries#AARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AAR

  1. A river in Switzerland, flowing 292 km from the glaciers of the Bernese Alps into the Rhine at Koblenz, on the Swiss–German borderCategory:en:Rivers in Switzerland#AARCategory:en:Places in Switzerland#AAR.
  2. A river in Germany that flows 50 km from the Taunus in Hesse into the Lahn at Diez, Rhineland-PalatinateCategory:en:Rivers in Germany#AARCategory:en:Places in Germany#AAR.
  3. A tributary in Hesse, Germany of the Dill river, itself a tributary of the LahnCategory:en:Rivers in Hesse, Germany#AARCategory:en:Rivers in Germany#AARCategory:en:Places in Hesse, Germany#AARCategory:en:Places in Germany#AAR.

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French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Aar fCategory:French lemmas#AARCategory:French proper nouns#AARCategory:French uncountable nouns#AARCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#AARCategory:French feminine nouns#AARCategory:Pages with entries#AARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AAR

  1. the Aar river

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German

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Middle High German#AARCategory:German terms derived from Middle High German#AAR ar, arn, from Old High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Old High German#AARCategory:German terms derived from Old High German#AAR aro, arn, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#AARCategory:German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#AAR *arō, from Proto-GermanicCategory:German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#AARCategory:German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#AAR *arô.

Noun

Aar m (strong or weak, genitive Aares or Aars or Aaren, plural Aare or Aaren)Category:German lemmas#AARCategory:German nouns#AARCategory:German weak nouns#AARCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#AARCategory:German masculine nouns#AARCategory:Pages with entries#AARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AAR

  1. (poeticCategory:German poetic terms#AAR, formalCategory:German formal terms#AAR or datedCategory:German dated terms#AAR) eagle
    Synonym: Adler
    • 1864, Franz Pfeiffer, Deutsche Classiker des Mittelalters, Erster Band: Walther von der Vogelweide, page 245:
      Er habe zwiefache Kaiserstärke: des Aares Milde und des Löwen Kraft: diesen zweien vermöge nichts zu widerstehen.
      He has twofold strengths as Kaiser: the eagle's clemency and the lion's power: nothing should be able to resist these two.
      Category:German terms with quotations#AAR
    • 1869, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in his Gedichte, page 315:
      Feder des Aaren!
      Feather of the eagle!
      Category:German terms with quotations#AAR
    • 1808, Heinrich von Kleist († 1811), Die Herrmannschlacht. Ein Drama, a drama, in: 1870, H. v. Kleists Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe. Erster Band, edited by Heinrich Kurz, page 281:
      [...] der Habicht rupft / Die Brut des Aars [...]
      the hawk fleeces / the eagle's brood
      Category:German terms with quotations#AAR
Declension

Etymology 2

Attested as Late LatinCategory:German terms derived from Late Latin#AAR Arola, Arula in the 7th century, from a pre-Indo-European hydronym *ar- (“watercourse”)Category:Undetermined language links#AAR, also present in several other Old European hydronymy names such as Ahr in Rhineland, Ar in Meurthe-et-Moselle, l'Arc in both Savoie and Bouches-du-Rhône, Hérault (Occitan Erau) in Hérault, Arre in Gard, etc.

Proper noun

die Aar f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Aar)Category:German lemmas#AARCategory:German proper nouns#AARCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#AARCategory:German feminine nouns#AARCategory:Pages with entries#AARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AAR

  1. a tributary of the Rhine in SwitzerlandCategory:de:Rivers in Switzerland#AARCategory:de:Places in Switzerland#AAR
  2. a left tributary of the Lahn in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse, GermanyCategory:de:Rivers in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany#AARCategory:de:Rivers in Germany#AARCategory:de:Rivers in Hesse, Germany#AARCategory:de:Rivers in Germany#AARCategory:de:Places in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany#AARCategory:de:Places in Germany#AARCategory:de:Places in Hesse, Germany#AARCategory:de:Places in Germany#AAR
  3. a left tributary of the Dill in Hesse, GermanyCategory:de:Rivers in Hesse, Germany#AARCategory:de:Rivers in Germany#AARCategory:de:Places in Hesse, Germany#AARCategory:de:Places in Germany#AAR
  4. a branch of the Ill, Bas-Rhin department, FranceCategory:de:Rivers in Bas-Rhin, France#AARCategory:de:Rivers in Grand Est, France#AARCategory:de:Places in Bas-Rhin, France#AARCategory:de:Places in Grand Est, France#AARCategory:de:Places in France#AAR
  5. a left tributary of the Twiste, Hesse, GermanyCategory:de:Rivers in Hesse, Germany#AARCategory:de:Rivers in Germany#AARCategory:de:Places in Hesse, Germany#AARCategory:de:Places in Germany#AAR
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References

  • Chronicle of Fredegar, leaflet 130
  • Kristol, Andres; Cattin, Florence; Meroni, Barbara; Schmid, Gabrielle, eds. (2005). "Aarau AG (Aarau)" [Encyclopedia of the Swiss municipality of LSG: Dictionnaire de toponymique scommunes Suisses DTS / Dizionario dei comuni toponomastico svizzeri DTS]. Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen LSG: Dictionnaire toponymique de scommunes suisses DTS /Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri DTS (in German) (1st ed.). Stuttgart, Germany: Huber Frauenfeld

Further reading

  • “Aar” in Duden online
  • “Aar”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎ (in German)
  • Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Aar”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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