Bautzen

English

Historical centre of the town

Etymology

German Bautzen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊtsən/

Proper noun

Bautzen

1. A town and rural district of Saxony, Germany.
2. (astronomy) 11580 Bautzen (an asteroid)

Translations

town in Germany

• Afrikaans: Bautzen
• Aragonese: Bautzen
• Belarusian: Ба́ўтцэн m (Báŭtcen), Бу́дышын m (Búdyšyn)
• Bulgarian: Будишин m (Budišin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包岑 (Bāocén)

• Czech: Budyšín (cs) m
• Danish: Bautzen
• Dutch: Bautzen
• Esperanto: Bautzen
• Estonian: Budishin
• French: Bautzen (fr)
• German: Bautzen (de) n
• Hungarian: Bautzen (hu)
• Japanese: バウツェン (Bautsen)
• Korean: 바우첸 (Bauchen)
• Latin: Budissa, civitas Budusin
• Latvian: Budishin
• Lithuanian: Budishinas
• Macedonian: Будишин m (Budišin)
• Norwegian: Bautzen
• Polish: Budziszyn (pl) m
• Romanian: Bautzen m
• Russian: Ба́утцен (ru) m (Báutcen)
• Slovak: Budyšín m
• Slovene: Budišin m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Budyšyn m

  Upper Sorbian: Budyšin (hsb) m

• Spanish: Bautzen
• Swedish: Bautzen
• Turkish: Bautzen
• Ukrainian: Будішин m (Budišyn)
• Vietnamese: Bautzen
• Volapük: Bautzen

rural district in Germany

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包岑县 (Bāocénxiàn)

Anagrams

• bezaunt

German

Alternative forms

• Budissin (Latinate form, widely used until 19th c.)

Etymology

From Middle High German Būdessen (and spelling variants), from Old Sorbian. Cognate with Upper Sorbian Budyšin, Polish Budziszyn. First attested in a Medieval Latin text as Budusin in 1002. The German form is an entirely regular outcome of the Slavic: Postalveolar -š- was borrowed as retracted Middle High German -s-, and Modern German diphthongisation and syncope then yielded Bautzen.

The further origin is uncertain, but probably Slavic, with suggestions including:

• Named after a prince called Budissentius, Budestaus, or alternatively a female *Budiša, from Proto-Slavic *buditi (“to awaken”). Compare names like Budigost, Budimir, Budislav.

• Some sources derive it from the Slavic name of the Ortenburg castle in Bautzen, which is given as Budetzsch, but they do not explain it further. A derivation from Upper Sorbian buda (“hut”) is highly unlikely as this is a Germanic loanword.

• Bautzen legend/folk etymology explains the name by a tale in which a traveling duchess gave birth in present-day Bautzen, during which the rushing husband asked budeli ssen, or perhaps in modern Upper Sorbian budźe syn? (“will it be a son?”).

Compare also Bautzen at German Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊ̯tsən/, [ˈbaʊ̯.t͡sn̩]

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Proper noun

Bautzen n (proper noun, genitive Bautzens or (optionally with an article) Bautzen)

1. Bautzen (a town and rural district of Saxony, Germany)
2. (astronomy) (11580) Bautzen (an asteroid)