Pader

See also: pader

German

Etymology

Uncertain, but probably from Old Saxon or Old High German; possibly an obsolete derivative of Proto-West Germanic *paþ (“way, path”) (compare modern Pfad, Low German Padd).

Proper noun

Pader n (proper noun, genitive Paders or (optionally with an article) Pader)

1. A river in North Rhine-Westphalia, a tributary of the Lippe. It runs through Paderborn, which it gives its name.

References

• Pader. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler: Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste