Niemen
See also: niemen
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈniːmən/
Proper noun
Niemen
- Alternative form of Neman (a river in Eastern Europe)
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70:
- […] two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Не́ман (Néman), from Lithuanian Nemunas, of uncertain origin, possibly from an Old Lithuanian word meaning "damp, wet".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.mɛn/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛmɛn
- Syllabification: Nie‧men
Declension
Further reading
- Niemen in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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