Stendal
/ˈʃtɛn.daːl/noun
Stendal is a city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, and the administrative center of the Stendal district.
Did you know?The French writer Stendhal adopted his pseudonym from Stendal, the birthplace of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann; his name later inspired the term Stendhal Syndrome.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Germanic
*stainaz
“stone”
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Germanic
*dalą
“valley or dale”
11th Century
Latinized German
Steinedal
“An early recorded form of the place-name, conventionally interpreted as “stone valley””
12th Century
Middle Low German
Stendale
“A developing medieval form of the settlement’s name”
Modern English
English
Stendal
“The German city; also the source of the French literary pseudonym Stendhal”