Cuxhaven
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English
Proper noun
Cuxhaven
- A town, port, and rural district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany.
German
Etymology
Uncertain first and second element. The first element may be equivalent to Koog (“polder”) (from Old Saxon kōg, from Proto-West Germanic *kaug) due to its geographical position at a mudflat; the second part looks equivalent to German Hafen (“harbor”) but can also be Hof (“court, farm”) or even Hag (“hedge”) in a form like Gellershagen (an informal subdistrict of Bielefeld).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cuxhaven n (proper noun, genitive Cuxhavens or (optionally with an article) Cuxhaven)
- Cuxhaven (a town in Lower Saxony, Germany)
- Cuxhaven (a rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany)
- (historical, till 1977) Cuxhaven (an independent town in Lower Saxony, Germany)