Wasen (toponym)

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Wasen is an old German toponym meaning " grassland , wet meadow ".

Word origin

The word comes from Middle High German wase ("lawn, moist soil"), from Old High German  waso , and goes back to an ancient Germanic root wēsa- ("frost, scent") and is related to Middle Low German / Anglo-Saxon wōs ("foam, decoction; moisture , Juice ") and Latvian vasa (" moisture of the soil ").

Word meanings

It generally means "wet wasteland ". The word is close to the meaning of Anger , Matte , Aue , Wiese , but has consistently a connotation of being damp. The verb wasen “to steam, emit haze ” could also be related . It also has a second aspect of meaning, namely " lawn " ( Low German wrase ), in the dialect to this day in the sense of " clod, sod ", a piece of meadow with earth (which you cut out with a spade, or put aside for re-greening during earthworks) lively. Likewise, it is the turf , so vegetation patches.

The term regional therefore encompasses the whole range of meanings from lush grassland , green fallow land , through fen to peat bog area, and is thus a characteristic field name of agriculture in general and of peatland in particular.

The family name Wasmer is derived from Middle High German wasmen or wasmen .

Spread and examples

The word is name-building throughout the German-speaking area.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge , Alfred Götze : Etymological dictionary of the German language . 20th edition, ed. by Walther Mitzka , De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1967; Reprint (“21st unchanged edition”) ibid 1975, ISBN 3-11-005709-3 , p. 840 ( Wasen ).
  2. ↑ wasen , m. piece of lawn, lawn. II.6) a) . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  3. ↑ wasen , I.2) . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ). Like Lithuanian wasa "moisture of the soil".
  4. ↑ wasen , verb. steam, give off haze . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  5. ↑ wasen , I.1), II.1) . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  6. ↑ so Wasen . 2) especially square pieces of lawn cut off . In: JG Krünitz: Oekonomische Encyklopädie (online uni-trier.de).
  7. ↑ wasen , II.4) the word is then and since the later mhd. Also used by the entire earth cover, in which plants have roots . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  8. ↑ Wasen , II.3) in Upper Germany, the word is also used for the pieces cut out of decomposed plant matter, peat . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  9. ↑ See also Alfred Helfenstein: The name of the Pilatus area. Keller, Luzern 1982, ISBN 3-85766-004-X , p. 47 (“ Parcel with particularly rich grass wax”).
  10. ↑ Alfred Helfenstein: The Namengut Pilate territory. 1982, p. 47.
  11. ↑ Waxenberg cf. Hausberg (Burgstall) Wasenberg . burgenkunde.at; this maybe also to mhd. what or wahs (= sharp, cutting)