Nehrung

From East Prussian Middle High German nerge (“spit”), related with the adjective Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz, whence English narrow.

If nerge is an early contraction, the word may have been derived with the Germanic suffix *-ingaz commonly used in placenames (compare German -ingen). If, however, the form Nehrung (16th c.) is a later alteration of nerge, it could be an old ablaut form or derived with the Germanic suffix *-į̄ (then orginally meaning “narrowness”). Also compare Narbe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈneːʁʊŋ/

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• Hyphenation: Neh‧rung

Nehrung f (genitive Nehrung, plural Nehrungen)

1. (geography) spit (long, very narrow peninsula, especially in the Baltic Sea)

   Frische Nehrung ― Vistula spit

   Kurische Nehrung ― Curonian spit

• Narbe

• Haff

• Nehrung on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Nehrung” in Duden online
• “Nehrung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Nehrung” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.