Sauerland

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Sauerland. === Proper noun === the Sauerland A region of Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. === Further reading === Sauerland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == German == === Etymology === First mentioned in 1266 as Suderlande; the -d- started to disappear around 1400. The first part is possibly a corruption of a Westphalian Low German word for southern: compare süder-, Süd, Old Saxon sûðar, all from sūth, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr. This is more likely than the theory that it is directly from sauer (“sour”, in this sense "poor soil"). The second part is related to Land. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈzaʊ̯ɐlant/ Rhymes: -ant === Proper noun === das Sauerland n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Sauerlandes or des Sauerlands) Sauerland (a hilly region of Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia) Synonym: Süderland ==== Usage notes ==== There are märkisches Sauerland and kurkölnisches Sauerland. ==== Derived terms ==== Sauerländer Sauerländerin sauerländisch Hochsauerland ==== See also ==== Latin: de Suderlande (as in Henricus de Suderlande) Low German: siuerländsk === Further reading === “Sauerland” in Duden online Sauerland on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de Westfälisches Urkunden-Buch. Fortsetzung von Erhards Regesta historiae Westfaliae. Siebenter Band: Die Urkunden des kölnischen Westfalens vom J. 1200–1300, Münster, 1908, p. 563, Nr. 1243: from the year 1266, in Latin and containing the name Wesselo de Suderlande (dative/ablative)