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what is the German meaning of the word "oppenheimer". I know it was the name of the "father of the atom bomb"
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- budding authorLv 72 decades agoFavorite Answer
It is just a family name, as Smith or Jones is in English
- 2 decades ago
Oppenheimer means "from Oppenheim" provided link will tell you that.
Oppenheim is a small town (about 7000 inhabitants) on the Upper Rhine (Rheinhessen), between Mainz and Worms. It is in the county of Mainz-Bingen in Rheinland-Pfalz and belongs to the Nierstein-Oppenheim Verbandsgemeinde (an administrative unit).
Hope this info helped :)
Source(s): http://surnames.behindthename.com/php/browse.php?l... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheim - 2 decades ago
German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from Oppenheim.
Source(s): Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University - 4 years ago
oppen is possibly a transliteration of "hupfen " in German which means "hopping". "Heim" in German is "home" in English. put them together and you have "hopping home." What is a hopping home? Maybe it's a German idiom of some kind.
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- cmhurley64Lv 62 decades ago
it does not translate,,, there is no word in the german language,,,took german 5 years
