Seidenstraße

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German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Seide (“silk”) +‎ Straße (“street, road”). Coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaɪ̯dn̩ˌʃtʁaːsə/
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Proper noun

die Seidenstraße f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Seidenstraße)

  1. (history) Silk Road

Declension

Declension of Seidenstraße
singular
def. noun
nominative die Seidenstraße
genitive der Seidenstraße
dative der Seidenstraße
accusative die Seidenstraße

References

  1. ^ Ferdinand von Richthofen (1877) “Über die zentralasiatischen Seidenstrassen bis zum 2. Jh. n. Chr. [On the Central Asian Silk Roads until the 2nd century A.D.]”, in Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin‎ (in German), volume 4, pages 96–122

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