Bonn

Borrowed from German Bonn.

Bonn

1. A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the River Rhine, which was the capital of the former West Germany.
2. (metonymically, historical after 1990) The West German government.

From Middle High German Bunne, from Old High German Bunna, from Proto-West Germanic *Bunnā, from Latin Bonna. The Central Franconian form with /o/ (rather than /ɔ/) clearly continues the original Germanic -u-. See German Bonn for more.

• IPA^(key): /bon/

Bonn n

1. Bonn (a city on the Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

• bönnsch, Bönnsch

Bonn

1. Bonn (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Borrowed from German Bonn.

• IPA^(key): /bɔn/

Bonn f

1. Bonn (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

From Middle High German Bonne, Bunne, from Old High German Bunna, from Proto-West Germanic *Bunnā, from Latin Bonna, short for Castra Bonnensia. The Germanic form shows its very old age in the replacement of -o- with -u-, which then also failed to undergo a-mutation because of the following nasal geminate. The modern German -o- is per se a regular development (cf. Sonne, Wonne), but was likely reinforced by readaptation to the Latin.

Another theory has it related to the tribe Eburones.^[1] Folk etymology has proposed origin from dedication to Saint Boniface, but this is a crass anachronism. During the Middle Ages, Bonn was often called Verona in Latin texts.

• IPA^(key): /bɔn/

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Bonn n (proper noun, genitive Bonns or (optionally with an article) Bonn)

1. Bonn (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; historical capital of West Germany)

• Bonner

Borrowed from German Bonn.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbonː]
• Hyphenation: Bonn
• Rhymes: -onː

Bonn

1. Bonn (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

• bonni

Bonn f

1. Bonn (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

   Synonym: Bona