Sieker
German
Etymology
Attested since the late 12th century.
From Middle Low German sīk from Proto-West Germanic *sīk (“watercourse, sitch”), as we know this stem from many other placenames. The identity of the ending is not without doubt, due to vowel reduction.
Incorporated into Bielefeld in 1930, not having any recognizable transition to the city’s historical core, in the course of its expansion and urbanization of the surrounding area.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈziːkʰɐ]
Proper noun
Sieker n (proper noun, genitive Siekers or (optionally with an article) Sieker)
- a neighbourhood and former municipality of Mitte district and Stieghorst district, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Declension
Declension of Sieker [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
Further reading
- Meineke, Birgit (2013) Die Ortsnamen der Stadt Bielefeld (Westfälisches Ortsnamenbuch; 5)[1], Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, , →ISBN, page 187 seqq.
- Sieker (Bielefeld) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de