1733: essen (City) Sep 12, 2019

The city of Essen, Germany is sometimes thought to be from the infinitive / participle German 'essen' ('eating'), but this is mistaken. The oldest-known name of the city is 'Astnide', but obviously this is very different. The name was, among the many stages of change, once called 'Esnede', which should give some idea how that could become what it is now. This is still somewhat theoretical, but this would make the name of the city having come from an old word for 'ash tree', which in modern German is now 'Esche'.

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