Bochum
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Bochum
- A city in western Germany
Translations[edit]
a city in Germany
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German bôchêm, bôkhêm, equivalent to bôke, bö̂ke (“beech”) + hêm (“home”). Doublet of Buchheim. The suffix was reduced to [əm] (see -em) and then backed under influence of the preceding velar. The [x] may go back to spelling pronunciation or influence by a Central German dialect. It could also be a native development [kh] → [x] as in Dutch lichaam, but the popular form in Westphalian Low German is Baukem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Bochum n (proper noun, strong, genitive Bochums)
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