empor
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]With the assimilation -ntb- → -mp- (as in Wimper) from earlier entbor, itself an alteration of Middle High German embor, enbor, enbore, from a phrase en bor (“to(wards) (a) height”), of which the second word is from Old High German bor (“height, summit, peak”). Related to English bear (verb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]empor
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “empor” in Duden online
- empor on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “empor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache