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Luxembourgish
Etymology
From German haupt- (“main, chief”), from Haupt (“head”), whose native cognate is Luxembourgish Heet. In view of the -aa- perhaps an older borrowing from a time when the underlying phoneme (Middle High German -ou-) had not yet been monophthongised. Alternatively influenced by nearby dialects of Rhine Franconian, in which Haapt or Hääpt is the native cognate.
Pronunciation
Prefix
haapt-
- main, chief
- haapt- + Strooss (“street”) → Haaptstrooss (“main street”)
- haapt- + Stad (“city”) → Haaptstad (“capital”)