Xanten.
Xanten (a town in Lower Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Meaning & usage
Xanten (a town in Lower Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German Sante(n), from Latin Sanctos (literally “(at) the saints”). The spelling with initial X- first appears in Latin texts of the 10th century. One theory links it with Ancient Greek Ξάνθος (Xánthos), the gods’ name for the Scamander river near Troy according to the Iliad. This theory is based on the fact that there was indeed a well attested medieval legend equating Xanten with Troy. The inherited local pronunciation is Santen /ˈsan.tən/, but it has now been widely displaced by the spelling pronunciation. Xanten is the only German locality in X- (though there are a few Bavarian ones, such as Gsellmühle, which are pronounced with initial /ks/).
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