apparently it's german for something or other.
2007-04-16 15:20:40 · 6 answers · asked by swot 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
well, perhaps when you tell me how you spell it, perhaps then you can tell me what it means?...
2007-04-16 15:26:22 · update #1
That was a bit tricky, but I finally got it: There's neither a panther nor a lion in the word - it's "Pantaleonsmühlengasse" which is a little street in Cologne next to where the medieval city walls used to be. On top of one of the former city gate towers (the "Bachtor") there was a windmill from 1730 to 1860. It was called "Pantaleonsmühle" (German "Mühle" = mill) after the near church of St Pantaleon - and was 33 metres high (the highest of all German windmills).
So the literal translation of "Pantaleonsmühlengasse" is "St Pantaleon's mill way".
2007-04-16 16:33:07 · answer #1 · answered by Sterz 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
muhlen: the u should have the two dots above it, the umlaut. and gasse could be gassen. The other two words don't look German, but they have these amazingly long compound words.
Go to freetranslation.com, and you can punch the word in to see what comes up. Or at least the last two words anyways.
Hope that helps a bit.
2007-04-16 22:29:01 · answer #2 · answered by SisterSue 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it's a combination of 3 German words meaning
panther + mill + alleyway and the one in English (leon)
but it makes no sense to me
2007-04-16 22:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by martox45 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
leon the big cat smells like gas
God bless
2007-04-16 22:27:45 · answer #4 · answered by thewindowman 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
no under stand! thece
2007-04-16 22:24:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
well for one you've spelt it wrong
2007-04-16 22:24:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋