Drontheim

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Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Þróndheimr. Compare English Throndham.

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Proper noun

Drontheim n (proper noun, genitive Drontheims or (optionally with an article) Drontheim)

  1. Throndham, Trondheim (a city and municipality of Trøndelag county, Norway).
    • 1767, Johann Gottfried Haymann, Carl Gottlob Dietmann, Neue Europäische Staats- und Reisegeographie worinnen die Staaten und Königreiche Dänemark, Norwegen, Schweden und Preussen, samt den Besitzungen der Krone Dänemark in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, ausführlich beschreiben werden., volume 14, page 245:
      Den heutigen Namen hat sie der umliegenden Gegend zu verdanken, welche ehedem Drontheim, die Einwohner aber Drönter oder Trönder geheissen.
      Its current name comes from the surrounding area, which used to be called Throndham, but the inhabitants were called Thronds or Trønder.
  2. (historical) Trøndelag

Derived terms

  • Drönter pl (“Thronds, people from Trøndelag”)
  • dröntisch (“of or pertaining to Trøndelag or Thronds”)
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