Geige
Appearance
See also: géige
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German gīge, from Old High German gīga, of unclear origin. Possibly from a Proto-Germanic *gīganą (“to move, wish, desire”) (based on the movement of a violinist's arms), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeyǵʰ-, *ǵʰeygʰ-, an extension of *ǵʰeh₂- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”),[1] though this is semantically dubious. Alternatively an independent onomatopoeic formation.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Geige f (genitive Geige, plural Geigen)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Geige [feminine]
Hypernyms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*ʒaiʒjanan ~ *ʒaiʒōjanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122
- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Geige”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “Geige” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Geige” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Geige” in Duden online
- Geige on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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