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# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/mischen

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​ mischen, verb, from the equivalent Middle High German and Middle Low German mischen, Old High German misken, ‘to mix’; compare Anglo-Saxon miscian, English to mix. In the other Old Teutonic languages a corresponding verb is wanting. The agreement with Latin misceo (miscere), ‘to mix,’ is evident. The only question is whether the word was primitively allied or was borrowed; that is difficult to determine, since, judging by sound and sense, both are possible. The assumption that the word was borrowed is supported by the loan-words relating to the Italian culture of the vine, which are quoted under Most. On the other hand, the Romance languages have instead of miscere a derivative misculare (French méler, equivalent to Old High German misculôn, Suabian mište); yet compare Italian mescere. On the supposition that the word was primitively allied, which is supported by Meisch, we should have to compare, in addition to the Latin term, Greek μίσγω (σγ equivalent to Teutonic sk?), μίγνυμι, the Sanscrit root miç in miçrá-s, ‘mixed,’ Old Slovenian měsiti, ‘to mix,’ Lithuanian mìsti, ‘to mingle’ (maísz-tas, ‘riot’). Hence Latin misceo, and, if mischen is primitively allied to it, Old Teutonic miskja represent a pre-historic mik-skejo (with sk as a suffix of the present stem, like forschen for pre-historic *forhskôn; compare waschen and wünschen). Compare Meisch.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/mild

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​ mild, adjective, ‘mild, meek, gentle,’ from Middle High German milte, ‘friendly, kind, liberal, gracious,’ Old High German mil(illegible text)i; compare Old Saxon mildi, Anglo-Saxon milde, English mild, Gothic mildeis (hardly *milds), adjective, ‘loving, mild’; a common Teutonic adjective of disputed origin. A word corresponding exactly in sound does not occur in the cognate languages. Latin mollis, if it represents *molvis, *moldvis (like suâvis for *suâdvis; compare süß); might with Teutonic *mildu-, ‘mild,’ belong to the root mol, ‘to grind,’ with which also Old Irish mláith (primary form mlâti-), ‘soft, gentle,’ or Old Irish meldach, ‘pleasant,’ is connected.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/mis

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​ mis, miß, ‘mis-, dis-, amiss, wrong,’ in compounds; from Middle High German misse-, Old High German missa-, missi-, which express the perversity or failure of an action; compare Gothic missadêþs (Old High German missitât, Middle High German and Modern High German missetât), ‘sin,’ missataujands, ‘sinner,’ Gothic missa-, for *miþtó- (literally ‘lost’), is an old to- participle from the root miþ (see meiden); compare Old Irish mí, ‘amiss.’ Hence the derivative missen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Frühling

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​ Frühling, masculine, ‘spring,’ a derivative of früh, early Modern High German only — from the 15th century; Lenz is the old West Teutonic term.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Funke

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​ Funke, masculine, from the equivalent Middle High German (not a classical form) vunke, masculine, Old High German funcho, masculine, ‘spark’; compare Dutch vonk, ‘spark,’ Middle Low German and Middle English funke, ‘small fire, spark,’ English funk, ‘round wood, steam, stink.’ Classical Middle High German has vanke, masculine. It is uncertain whether Gothic fôn (genitive fŭnins), ‘fire,’ is allied; it is more probable that Sanscrit pâjas, ‘splendour, gleam of light,’ is primitively cognate.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Fräulein

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​ Fräulein, neuter, ‘young lady, damsel, miss,’ from Middle High German vröuwelîn, neuter, diminutive of Middle High German vrouwe, ‘woman’, originally ‘noble maiden, young lady of noble birth, mistress, sweetheart,’ also ‘girl of mean rank, servant-girl.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Fuder

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​ Fuder, neuter, from the equivalent Middle High German vuoder, Old High German fuodar, neuter, ‘measure (varying from 36 to 72 bushels, of wine about 1200 bottles), waggon-load’; compare Old Saxon fôthar, Dutch voer, Anglo-Saxon fôþer, ‘measure, waggon-load,’ English fother, fodder, a term in mining. Hence the common West Teutonic term fôþr, neuter, ‘waggon-load,’ from the Teutonic root faþ in Faden. From High German, French foudre is derived.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Fuchs

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​ Fuchs, masculine, ‘fox, light bay horse, cunning person, freshman (univ.)’ from the equivalent Middle High German vuhs, Old High German fuhs, masculine; corresponding to Dutch vos, Anglo-Saxon and English fox; Gothic *faúhs-, masculine (weak substantive), is not found. The s is a masculine suffix, as in Luchs; it is wanting, therefore, in the older feminine form, Old High German foha, Middle High German vohe, feminine, ‘vixen’ (also ‘fox,’ equivalent to Gothic faúhô, feminine, ‘fox,’ Old Icelandic foa, ‘fox’). Old Icelandic fox, neuter, is used only in the figurative sense of ‘deceit.’ The Modern High German feminine form Füchsin corresponds to Anglo-Saxon fyxen, English vixen. Gothic faúhô, feminine, from pre-Teutonic púkâ, makes it appear possible to connect the word phonetically with Modern High German Vogel, Gothic fugls, pre-Teutonic pukló-s, in case Sanscrit puccha, ‘tail, train,’ is of a cognate stem; Fuchs and Vogel, meaning ‘tailed creatures,’ is quite possible. At all events, there is no connection with Latin L. vulpes.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Fund

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​ Fund, masculine, from the equivalent Middle High German vunt, masculine, ‘finding, discovery, find’; allied to finden; compare Dutch vond, ‘discovery, invention,’ Old Icelandic fundr, fyndr.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Fuge

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​ Fuge, feminine, ‘fugue,’ first occurs in early Modern High German, from Italian fuga.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Fuhre

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​ Fuhre, feminine, ‘journey, conveyance, waggon, cart-load,’ from Middle High German vuore, feminine, journey, way, street, escort, food for a ‘journey, fodder,’ Old High German fuora; compare Anglo-Saxon fôr, feminine, ‘journey,’ also ‘vehicle’; akin to fahren. See also führen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Fuchtel

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​ Fuchtel, feminine, earlier Modern High German Fochtel, ‘broadsword, a blow struck with it,’ first occurs in Modern High German; akin to feckten.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Fug

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​ Fug, masculine, ‘adaptedness, due authority, right,’ from Middle High German vuoc(g), masculine, ‘propriety,’ as well as the equivalent vuoge, feminine, Modern High German Fuge, akin to fügen.
# Anna Karenina (Dole)/Part Three

Levin and Kitty.
Original Drawing by E. Boyd Smith.
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
* Chapter 21
* Chapter 22
* Chapter 23
* Chapter 24
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 26
* Chapter 27
* Chapter 28
* Chapter 29
* Chapter 30
* Chapter 31
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Götze

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​ Götze, ‘idols, false god,’ from MidHG. götze, m., ‘statue for ecclesiastical purposes’; lit. ‘cast (image),’ (allied to gießen, MidHG. gieȥen?). Perhaps, however, Götze is a short form of Götterbild, just as Götz is pet name for Gottfried; comp. Spatz and Sperling.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Gürtel

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​ Gürtel, m., ‘girdle,’ from the equiv. MidHG. gürtel, m. and f., OHG. gurtil, m., gurtila, f. Comp. E. girdle, from AS. gyrdel.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/H

* A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - Z
* Haar
* Haar
* Habe
* haben
* Haber
* Habergeiß
* Habicht
* Hach
* Hächse
* Hacke
* hacken
* Hader
* Hader
* Hafen
* Hafen
* Hafer
* Haff
* Haft
* Haft
* haft
* Hag
* Hagedorn
* Hagel
* Hagen
* hagen
* hager
* Hagestolz
* Häher
* Hahn
* Hahnrei
* Hai
* Hain
* Hake
* halb
* halb
* Halde
* Hälfte
* Halfter
* Hall
* Halle
* Halle
* hallen
* Halm
* Hals
* halsen
* halt
* halten
* Hamen
* hämisch
* Hammel
* Hammer
* Hämmling
* Hampfel
* Hamster
* Hand
* Hand
* handeln
* Handwerk
* Hanf
* Hang
* hangen
* Hanse
* hänseln
* hantieren
* hapern
* Harfe
* Häring
* Harke
* Harlekin
* Harm
* Harn
* Harnisch
* harren
* harsch
* hart
* Hart
* Harz
* haschen
* Hase
* Hasel
* Haspe
* Haspel
* Hast
* Haß
* häßlich
* hätscheln
* Hatschier
* Hatz
* Haube
* Haubitze
* hauchen
* Hauderer
* hauen
* Haue
* Haufe
* häufig
* Haupt
* Haus
* hauß
* Hauste
* Haut
* Hebamme
* Hebel
* heben
* Hechel
* Hechse
* Hecht
* Hecke
* Hecke
* Hede
* Hederich
* Heer
* Hefe
* Heft
* heften
* heftig
* hegen
* Hehl
* hehlen
* hehr
* Heide
* Heide
* Heidelbeere
* heikel
* Heil
* heil
* heilen
* Heiland
* heilig
* Heim
* heim
* Heimat
* Heimchen
* heimlich
* Heirat
* heischen
* heiser
* Heister
* heiß
* heißen
* -heit
* heiter
* heizen
* Held
* helfen
* hell
* Hellbank
* Hellebarte
* Heller
* helligen
* Helm
* Helm
* Hemd
* hemmen
* Hengst
* Henkel
* henken
* Henker
* Henne
* Heppe
* her
* herb
* Herberge
* Herbst
* Herd
* Herde
* Hering
* Herling
* Hermelin
* Herold
* Herr
* herrlich
* Herrschaft
* herrschen
* Herz
* Herzog
* hetzen
* Heu
* heucheln
* heuer
* heulen
* Heuschrecke
* heute
* Hexe
* Hieb
* Hief
* hier
* Hifthorn
* Hilfe
* Himbeere
* Himmel
* hin
* Hinde
* hindern
* Hindin
* Hinken
* hinnen
* hinten
* hinter
* Hippe
* Hippe
* Hirn
* Hirsch
* Hirse
* Hirte
* hissen
* Hitte
* Hitze
* Hobel
* hoch
* Hochzeit
* Hocke
* Hocke
* hocken
* Höcker
* Hode
* Hof
* Hoffart
* hoffen
* hofieren
* höfisch
* Höhe
* hohl
* Höhle
* Hohn
* Höker
* Hokuspokus
* hold
* Holder
* holen
* Holfter
* Holk
* Hölle
* Holm
* holpern
* Holunder
* Holz
* Honig
* Hopfen
* horchen
* Horde
* Horde
* hören
* Horn
* Hornisse
* Hornung
* Horst
* Hort
* Hose
* Hub
* Hube
* Hübel
* hübsch
* Huf
* Hufe
* Hüfte
* Hüfthorn
* Hügel
* Huhn
* Huld
* Hülfe
* Hülle
* Hülse
* Hulst
* Hummel
* Hummer
* Humpe
* humpeln
* Hund
* Hundert
* Hundsfott
* Hüne
* Hunger
* huntzen
* hüpfen
* Hürde
* Hure
* hurra
* hurtig
* Husar
* husch
* Husten
* Hut
* Hut
* hüten
* Hütte
* Hulzel
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Habe

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​ Habe, f., ‘possession; handle,’ from MidHG. habe, OHG. haba, f., ‘goods, possession’; Du. have, ‘possession’; allied to the following word.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Haar

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​ Haar (1.), m., ‘flax,’ from the equiv. MidHG. har, OHG. haro (gen. MidHG. and OHG. harwes), m.; Goth. *harwa- (gen. *harwis) is also implied by OIc. hǫrr (dat. hǫrve), m., ‘flax.’ As to its connection with Haar (2.) see the latter. Perhaps the word is most closely related to E. hards (‘refuse of flax, tow’). See Hede.
Haar (2.), n., ‘hair,’ from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. hâr, n.; comp. the corresponding OIc. hâr, n., AS. hœ̂r, n., E. hair, Du. haar; a common Teut. word (in Goth., however, tagl and skuft). The following Teut. words are also primit. allied — OIc. haddr and AS. heord, ‘hair’ (Goth. *hazda), as well as Ir. cass, ‘curled hair.’ In the non-Teut. languages comp. OSlov. kosmŭ, m., kosa (Lith. kasa), f., ‘hair,’ and probably also OSlov. čésati, ‘to comb,’ Lat. carere, ‘to card wool.’ The more definite relations in sound existing between these words are difficult to determine (comp. also Gr. κόμη, Lat. coma?). On the other hand, there is no phonetic difficulty in connecting the Teut. *hera-, ‘hair,’ with harwa-, deduced under Haar (1.); the mere possibility is, however, all that can be maintained. Comp. also Locke and kraus. — An old derivative of Haar, AS. hœ̂re, OHG. hârâ, hârrâ, f., ‘hair shirt, coarse garment,’ found its way into Romance (Fr. haire).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Guß

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​ Guß, m., ‘shower, torrent, spout, cast,’ from MidHG. and OHG. guȥ(ȥȥ), ‘cast, shower.’ Allied to gießen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Gänserich

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​ Gänserich, m., ‘gander, wild tansy,’ ModHG. simply, formed like Enterich, from an earlier Ganser (still found in many of the UpG. dialects; in Alsat. gunšter, MidG. gánsert), MidHG. ganȥer, also ganȥe, ganze, m., ‘gander.’ Comp. LG. gante, Scand. gasse for gásse, ‘gander’; see Gans. The plant Genserich is a corruption of an earlier Grenserich; comp. Fr. bec d'oie, Ital. piè d oca. The MidHG. and OHG. term is gręnsinc (even cęnsing also in OHG.).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Gülte

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​ Gülte, f., ‘payment, interest,’ from MidHG. gülte, f., ‘debt, payment, interest, rent.’ Akin to gelten.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Günsel

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​ Günsel, m., ‘bugle(-plant),’ simply ModHG., transformed from Lat. consolida, “a name applied by the earlier herb-gatherers to all wound-healing plants.”
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Biest

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​ Biest, m., in Biestmilch, from the equiv. MidHG. biest, OHG. biost, m.; comp. AS. beóst, and its deriv. AS. bŷsting, E. beastings, biestings. ModHG. dialects have also remarkable parallel forms with br, like OIc. á-brystur, ‘beastings,’ e.g. Swiss briešt (brieš), which may be connected with Brust, OHG. brust, AS. breóst. Beyond the Teut. group (whence OFr. bet, ModFr. béton is borrowed) the stem has not yet been traced; it is most frequently compared with the equiv. Gr. πῦός, Sans. pîyûša. Yet a Teut. root bius seems to underlie biese, beise, ‘to milk,’ in the Wetterau dial.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Bifang

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​ Bifang, m., ‘enclosure, ridge,’ from MidHG. bívanc, m., ‘circuit, ridge between furrows,’ OHG. bífang, ‘circuit,’ from bifãhan, ‘comprise, encircle.’ With respect to the accented verbal prefix in the subst. compound, comp. bei, where ‘around’ is also quoted as one of the OTeut. meanings of bi. Bifang (in opposition to Beispiel, bîspel) retains, like bieder, the old short verbal prefix; comp. bieder, Bild, Beunde.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Bibel

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​ Bibel, f., ‘bible,’ from MidHG. bibel, of which there is a variant, biblie (E. bible. ​Du. bijbel, Fr. bible); formed from Gr.-Lat. biblia. Comp. Fibel.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Bibernelle

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​ Bibernelle, Pimpinelle, Pimpernelle, f., ‘pimpernel,’ corruptions of the MidLat. botanical term pipinella, pimpinella. Even in MidHG. various corruptions are produced by popular etymology; Fr. pimprenelle.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Bicke

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​ Bicke, f., Bickel, m., ‘pickaxe,’ from the equiv. MidHG. bicke, bickel, m.; comp. MidHG. bicken, OHG. (ana)bicchan, wk. vb., ‘to prick, thrust’; allied to AS. becca, E. bick-iron. It is probably connected further with a Kelt.-Rom. class (Ital. becco, Fr. bec, Du. bek, ‘beak,’ Fr. bêche, ‘spade,’ Ital. beccare, ‘to hack,’ &c.); it is possible that AS. becca, ‘pickaxe,’ is allied to Ir. and Gael. bacc, ‘hook.’ Beil seems to come from another stem.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Bier

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​ Bier, n., ‘beer,’ from the equiv. MidHG. bier, OHG. and OLG. bior, n., comp. Du. bier, AS. beór, E. beer, OIc. bjórr; Fr. bière is borrowed MidHG. bier. There can be no connection with Lat. bibo, Sans. píbâmi; nor can Gr. πίων, OInd. pîvas, ‘a rich drink,’ be cognate. It is rightly thought to be akin to an OTeut. term for ‘barley,’ OLG. and AS. beó (OIc. bygg), from Teut. *bewwo-, based on a pre-hist. *bhéwo-, while the cognates of Bier point to a deriv. *bhewro-. Thus Bier is equal to ‘barley-juice’?.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Biber

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​ Biber, m., ‘beaver,’ from the equiv. MidHG. biber, OHG. bibar, m.; it corresponds to AS. beofor, E. beaver, Du. bever, OIc. bjórr, Goth. *bibrus, A term common to the Aryan family, originally eignilying a ‘brown’ aquatic animal; Lat. fiber (OGall. Bibracte), OSlov. bebrŭ, Lith. běbrus (most frequently dábras), ‘beaver.’ OInd. babhrús as an adj. means ‘brown,’ as a subst. masc. ‘great ichneumon’; bhe-bhrú-s is a reduplicated form of the root bher in Bär and braun. The primitive tribe from which the Indo-Teutons are descended had ere its dispersion several fully developed names of animals; comp. Hund, Kuh, Maus, Wolf, &c. The Teut. word had at an early period supplanted the Lat. fiber in Rom., Late Lat. biber, Ital. bevero, Span. bibaro, Fr. bièvre, from Teut. bebru-, bibru-.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Bieber

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​ Bieber, ‘fever’. Only in compounds with -flee, -fraut, --wurz, Comp. MidHG. biever, n., ‘fever.’ Its relation to Lat. febris is ambiguous; it is probably a corruption of vieber. See Fieber.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Biene

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​ Biene, f., ‘bee,’ from the equiv. MidHG. bine, bin, f., OHG. bini, n.; bĭ is the proper root syllable, as is shown by OHG. bîa, Du. bij, AS. beó, E. bee, OSw. bî (OIc. býfluga); the n of the weak declension is retained in the deriv. OHG. bī̆ni; the form binni (from binja-), which we should have expected, is not recorded. Besides these there are OHG. and MidHG. forms with î, OHG. bîna, f., MidHG. bîn, f. (Austr. dial. Bein); they are related perhaps to MidHG. bĭn like Goth. sŭnus to Sans. sûnus, Goth. qĭwa to Sans. jîva-, &c.; comp. Sohn, Queck, laut, Schaufel. Lith. bitìs, Ir. bech, ‘bee,’ seem allied, though they have a different suffix. The word is based on a root bhī̆, ‘to be afraid,’ discussed under beben; hence Biene is perhaps ‘the trembler’?. Respecting Bienenbrot comp. Brot. Bienenkorb was an early remodelled form for OHG. binichar. Biensaug, n., a botanical term, lit. ‘a plant that the bee is fond of sucking.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Biese

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​ Biese, Bise, f., ‘north-east wind,’ earlier, Beiswind (with the regular ei), from the equiv. bī̆se, OHG. bī̆sa, whence Fr. bise. A Teut. root bī̆s, bī̆z, ‘to rush in excitedly,’ also appears in MidHG. and ModHG. (dial.), bisen, ‘to run about like cattle tormented by horse-flies’ (with this is connected ModHG. dial. beiern, with a change of s into r, in Hess. and Henneberg., with the same meaning); comp. further OSw. bĭsa, ‘to run,’ Dan. bisse, ‘to run excitedly.’ Perhaps the root bi, ‘to tremble,’ is nearly akin.