Hameln
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German
Etymology
From Old Saxon Hamela, Hameloa, a compound whose second element is lōh (“clearing, meadow”) (compare modern High German Loh (“grove”)).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hameln n (proper noun, genitive Hamelns or (optionally with an article) Hameln)
- Hamelin (a town, the administrative seat of Hameln-Pyrmont district, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Proper noun
Hameln m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hamelns or (with an article) Hameln, feminine genitive Hameln, plural Hamelns)
- a surname transferred from the place name