Arklitten
English
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Etymology
editBorrowed from German Arklitten, from Old Prussian [Term?].
Proper noun
editArklitten
- (historical) A village, located in what was historically East Prussia and is now Poland; the village is now called Arklity.
Anagrams
editGerman
editEtymology
editFrom the earlier form Arkeliten (attested in 1359), Erkeliten (1401), from Old Prussian. (Folk etymology connects the name to the fact that the place had arg gelitten (“suffered terribly”) during the Swedish chapter of the Thirty Years' War.)
Proper noun
editArklitten n (proper noun, genitive Arklittens or (optionally with an article) Arklitten)
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