Niemen
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See also: niemen
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈniːmən/
Proper noun
Niemen
- Alternative form of Neman (a river in Eastern Europe)
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70:
- […] two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.
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Finnish
Proper noun
Niemen
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Не́ман (Néman), from Lithuanian Nemunas, of uncertain origin, possibly from an Old Lithuanian word meaning "damp, wet".
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Niemen m inan
Declension
Declension of Niemen
Further reading
- Niemen in Polish dictionaries at PWN