Mount Adelung, the highest peak in the Pskem Range in extreme north-east Uzbekistan's Tashkent Province
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Friedrich von Adelung (1768–1843), German-Russian linguist, historian and bibliographer
Johann Christoph Adelung | Mount Adelung | Friedrich von Adelung |
The philologist Johann Christoph Adelung states that the word has an origin in the Germanic vernacular where pumpern was a New High German synonym for being flatulent, and Nickel was a form of the name Nicholas, commonly associated with a goblin or devil (e.g. "Old Nick", a familiar name for Satan), or more generally for a malevolent spirit or demon.