Löwe
Appearance
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Leu (archaic; poetic)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German lewe, löuwe, lauwe, from Old High German lewo, lēo, from Proto-West Germanic *lewo, *lēwo (“lion”). The spelling -ew- in Middle High German generally represents a diphthong [øy̯(w)], and accordingly the expected form in Modern German is Leu(e) (cf. freuen). The form Löwe with a monophthong and consonantal -w- is most readily explained from a long-vowel variant lēwe, which would correspond to Dutch leeuw.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Löwe m (weak, genitive Löwen, plural Löwen, diminutive Löwchen n, feminine Löwin)
- lion
- (heraldry) lion, as used on a coat of arms
- (astronomy, astrology, singular only, no female or feminine form) Leo
Declension
[edit]Declension of Löwe [masculine, weak]
Hyponyms
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[edit]See also
[edit]Zodiac signs in German (layout · text) | |||||||||||
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Widder | Stier | Zwillinge | Krebs | ||||||||
Löwe | Jungfrau | Waage | Skorpion | ||||||||
Schütze | Steinbock | Wassermann | Fische |
Further reading
[edit]- “Löwe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Löwe” in Duden online
- “Löwe” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Löwe”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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