Gerte

German

Etymology

From Middle High German gerte, Old High German gartia (“rod, twig, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀdi (“staff, rod, twig”).

Cognates:

Cognate with English yard (“unit of measurement”), Saterland Frisian Jädde (“crop, yard”), Dutch garde (“whisk, stick, yard”). Also related to Old Norse gaddr, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌶𐌳𐍃 (gazds), Latin hasta (“spear”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁtə
• Hyphenation: Ger‧te

Noun

Gerte f (genitive Gerte, plural Gerten)

1. (horse-riding) crop (a whip without a lash)

Declension

Declension of Gerte [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Gerte	die	Gerten
genitive	einer	der	Gerte	der	Gerten
dative	einer	der	Gerte	den	Gerten
accusative	eine	die	Gerte	die	Gerten

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.