Haubitze

German

Borrowed during the Hussite Wars (early 15th c.) from Old Czech haufnicě (modern Czech houfnice), derived from húf, hauf (“heap”), a borrowing from Middle High German hūfe. Compare modern German Haufen, modern Czech houf (“flock, crowd”). Early German forms were huffnitze, hauffenicz. The current form with -b- appears around 1700.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Haubitze f (genitive Haubitze, plural Haubitzen)

Declension of Haubitze [feminine]

→ Dutch: houwitser
- → English: howitzer
→ French: obus
- → Catalan: obús
- → Dutch: obus
- → Ottoman Turkish: اوبوز, اوبوس (obüs)
  - Turkish: obüs
- → Portuguese: obus
- → Romanian: obuz
- → Spanish: obús
→ Italian: obice
→ Polish: haubica
- → Belarusian: га́убица (háubica)
- → Russian: га́убица (gáubica)
- → Ukrainian: гаубиця (haubycja)
→ Serbo-Croatian: hàubica
→ Swedish: haubits
- → Finnish: haupitsi

^ Haubitze in: Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), published at dwds.de
^ “Haubitze” in: Kluge/Seebold, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2002
^ Václav Machek (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia