Seidenstraße

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Seide (“silk”) +‎ Straße (“street, road”). Coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaɪ̯dn̩ˌʃtʁaːsə/
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Proper noun

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

  1. (history) Silk Road

Declension

Declension of Seidenstraße [sg-only, feminine]
singular
def. noun
nominative die Seidenstraße
genitive der Seidenstraße
dative der Seidenstraße
accusative die Seidenstraße

References

  1. ^ Ferdinand von Richthofen (1877) “Über die zentralasiatischen Seidenstrassen bis zum 2. Jh. n. Chr. [On the Central Asian Silk Roads until the 2nd century A.D.]”, in Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin‎[1] (in German), volume 4, pages 96–122

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