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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 서울 (Seoul, literally “capital city”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Soul m inan (related adjective soulský)
- Seoul (the capital city of South Korea)
Declension
Declension of Soul (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- Soul in Internetová jazyková příručka
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 서울 (Seoul, literally “capital city”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Soul
- Seoul (the capital city of South Korea)
Declension
Anagrams
German
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English soul, from Middle English, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”). Cognate with German Seele.
Pronunciation
Noun
Soul m (strong, genitive Soul or Souls, plural Soul)
- (music) soul music, soul
- Synonym: Soulmusik f
Declension
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Soul n (proper noun, genitive Souls or (optionally with an article) Soul)
- Rare spelling of Seoul.
1902, Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen. Herausgegeben im königlich preußischen Ministerium der öffentlichen Arbeiten. Fünfundzwanzigster Jahrgang 1902, Berlin, page 166f.:Bau der Eisenbahn von Soul nach Fusan in Korea. Nachdem seit dem Jahre 1900 das koreanische Halbinselreich mit Eröffnung der 42 km langen Eisenbahn von der Hauptstadt des Landes Soul nach dem an der Westküste gelegenen Hafen Chemulpo in die Reihe der Eisenbahnländer eingetreten ist, beginnt der Eisenbahnbau auch im Lande der „Morgenruhe“ lebhaftere Fortschritte zu machen. […] Dieses Interesse der Japaner an Korea bethätigt sich jetzt besonders lebhaft bei dem in Kürze beginnenden Bau der Bahn von Soul nach dem an der Südostküste gelegenen Hafenorte Fusan.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Soul
1Optionally with an article.
Further reading
- “Soul” in Duden online
- “Soul” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Soul m inan (genitive singular Soulu, declension pattern of dub)
- Seoul (the capital of South Korea)
References
- “Soul”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024