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Zeitung

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German

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Zeitungen

Etymology

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From Middle Dutch tīdinge, whence is borrowed Middle High German zīdunge (West Central German), from Proto-West Germanic *tīdungu (message), from the verb *tīdōn (to happen), from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi (time, interval). From this the later Upper German form zītunge, and then the modern form.

Compare Dutch tijding, English tiding, Swedish tidning, Hunsrik Zeidung, Yiddish צײַטונג (tsaytung).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡saɪ̯tʊŋ/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡saɪ̯tʊŋk/ (some speakers, chiefly northern Germany)
  • Hyphenation: Zei‧tung
  • Audio (Austria):(file)
  • Audio (Germany):(file)

Noun

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Zeitung f (genitive Zeitung, plural Zeitungen)

  1. newspaper
  2. (archaic) tidings, news
    • 1787, Friedrich Schiller, Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien, I. Akt, 5. Auftritt; republished as R. D. Boylan, transl., (Please provide a date or year):
      Das Einz'ge, Carl, warum ich Sie mit Thränen / Beschwöre – fliehen Sie! – eh meine Damen – / Eh meine Kerkermeister Sie und mich / Beisammen finden und die große Zeitung / Vor Ihres Vaters Ohren bringen
      With tears I do conjure you, Carlos, fly! / I ask no more. O fly! before my court, / My guards, detecting us alone together, / Bear the dread tidings to your father's ear.

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Zeitung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Zeitung” in Duden online

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From German Zeitung. The inherited Luxembourgish cognate is obsolete Zeideng (tidings).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtsai̯tuŋ/, [ˈt͡sɑɪ̯.tuŋ]

Noun

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Zeitung f (plural Zeitungen)

  1. newspaper
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