Holstein

From a tribe which inhabited the area, the Holsten / Holtsaten. The name is equivalent to German Holz (“wood”) + Sassen (“inhabitant”), German Low German Holt (“wood”) + Saten (“inhabitant”).

Holstein

1. The region between the rivers Elbe and Eider, to the south of Schleswig, part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
   • 1880, Nassau William, senior, Conversations with distinguished persons during the Second Empire, volume 1, page 206:

     Schleswig refuses to be separated from Holstein.

• Holsteiner
• Schleswig-Holstein

From the animals' region of origin: the horses came from Schleswig-Holstein, the cows came from the area of Frisia and Holstein.

Holstein (plural Holsteins)

1. A type of dairy cattle, distinctively colored in splotches of black and white.
2. A breed of horse, thought to be the oldest of the warmblood breeds, used in show jumping.

• (dairy cattle): Friesian
• (horse): Holsteiner

Holstein

1. A surname​.

• Holstein-Lewis fracture
• Holstein-Primakoff transformation

• Holstine, hot lines, hotlines, neoliths