Weichsel
Danish
Proper noun
Weichsel
- Vistula (The longest river in Poland and erewhile a river of Prussia, which flows into the Baltic Sea)
Synonyms
German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
An adaptation of German Low German Wīssel with respect to the Low German lack of New High German diphthongisation and merger of /χs/ to /s/.
Proper noun
die Weichsel f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Weichsel)
- Vistula (The longest river in Poland and erewhile a river of Prussia, which flows into the Baltic Sea)
Etymology 2
From Middle High German wīhsel, from Old High German wīhsila, from Proto-Germanic *wīhsilō.
Noun
Weichsel f (genitive Weichsel, plural Weichseln)
- (as a simplex archaic or dialectal, Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland) sour cherry (fruit of the sour cherry tree)
- Synonyms: (predominant) Sauerkirsche; Weichselkirsche
Declension
Declension of Weichsel [feminine]
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Weichsel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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