Mosel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mosel.

Proper noun

Mosel (countable and uncountable, plural Mosels)

  1. A surname from German.
  2. A town and unincorporated community therein, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States.
  3. A village in Zwickau municipality, Saxony, Germany.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Mosel is the 41359th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 526 individuals. Mosel is most common among White (93.73%) individuals.

Further reading

German

Etymology

From Latin Mosella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmoːzl̩]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Mo‧sel

Proper noun

die Mosel f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Mosel)

  1. Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)

Derived terms

Noun

Mosel m (strong, genitive Mosels, plural Mosel)

  1. shorthand of Moselwein

Declension

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Mosel

  1. Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Mosel

  1. Moselle (a left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany)