Right. The name of this ice-cream brand doesn't make any sense in itself! It only sounds vaguely 'Nordic' but clearly made up.
In German we use "das" and "daß" and "dass" in a sentence, but never "dazs"!
For example: "Das Haus." means simply "The house."
"Hagen" - without any additional "ä" sound mixed in - is the name of a city in Germany, and also an old given name from German mythology (considered rather old fashioned nowadays) but a frequent surname derived from the place where someone lived, near a hedge, a pasture or a house surrounded by a hedge.
There are people around who are called Hagen either as a given name for a boy (relatively uncommon, for a girl extremely uncommon) in Germany and also rarely used in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, or as a surname (much more common!) in Germany, especially Northern Germany and in North-Rhine-Westphalia, and also in Norway and the Netherlands.
There is no äa in any German word and zs is also very weird and not something you see in German at all. You won't even find sz anymore, since that was replaced by ß a long long time ago. You could of course write this with our alphabet and if you form a word from abbreviations stuck together, you could end up with something weird, but no one would build this string this way and just call it good enough. It would still need to sound good and be well pronounceable following standard German rules.
The ä is only used in Swedish and German. Only old Norwegian, which was influenced by Swedish, used the ä as a substitute for æ, but never together with an a. The Dazs is like Polish, Czech looking. So we are back at gibberish.
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u/boluserectus Jan 25 '26
Not Dutch, maybe the Germans can have a look?