Gorzów

Borrowed from Polish Gorzów.

Gorzów

1. A village in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

Attested since 1847, derived from earlier Gorzowa or Gorzowo, which has the same meaning and is attested at least since 17th century. The two most probable etymologies are:

• gorzeć (“archaic: to burn, to be on fire”) +‎ -ów. Currently the verb is more often spelled goreć.
• gorzeć (“obsolete: to distill”) +‎ -ów. Remnants of this meaning are present in the words gorzelnia and gorzałka, which are still in use.

Before World War II, this was the official name of Gorzów Śląski, a town known in German as Landsberg. After the war, the name was changed to disambiguate it from Gorzów Wielkopolski, a different town also called Landsberg in the Recovered Territories, which had no commonly used Polish name and was renamed by analogy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ʐuf/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʐuf
• Syllabification: Go‧rzów

Gorzów m inan

1. Gorzów (a village in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship)
2. (informal) Gorzów Wielkopolski (one of two capitals of Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland)
3. (informal or historical) Gorzów Śląski (a town in the Opole Voivodeship, Poland)

• Gorzów in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Gorzów in Polish dictionaries at PWN