Submitted Name
Type Settlement
Usage English, Basque, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh
Scripts Ντόρτμουντ(Greek) Дортмунд(Belarusian, Russian)
Pronounced Pron. DAWRT-mənd(English) DAWRT-muwnt(English, German) DAWRT-muwnd(English) DOWT-muwnt(German) DAWRT-moond(Italian) DAWRT-moont(Polish) DORT-muwnt(Russian) [key·IPA]
Meaning & History
First mentioned in the 9th century AD as Throtmanni, of uncertain origin and meaning, the form Dortmunde first appeared in the 13th century. This is the name of a city in western Germany.