Eichel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Eichel.

Proper noun

Eichel (plural Eichels)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Eichel is the 35294^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 638 individuals. Eichel is most common among White (94.51%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Eichel”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 516.

Anagrams

• eliche, lichee

German

Eine Eichel mit Knolle. — An acorn with its bulb.

Etymology

From Middle High German eichel, from Old High German eihhila, from Proto-West Germanic *aikilā. Equivalent to Eiche (“oak”) +‎ -el. The sense “glans penis” is a semantic loan from Latin glāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯çl̩/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Eichel f (genitive Eichel, plural Eicheln)

1. acorn (fruit of an oak tree)

   Holonym: Eiche

   Hypernym: Frucht

2. acorns (a suit in German and Swiss playing cards)
3. (anatomy) glans
   1. ellipsis of Peniseichel (“glans penis”)
   2. ellipsis of Klitoriseichel (“clitoral glans”)

Declension

Declension of Eichel [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Eichel	die	Eicheln
genitive	einer	der	Eichel	der	Eicheln
dative	einer	der	Eichel	den	Eicheln
accusative	eine	die	Eichel	die	Eicheln

Further reading

• “Eichel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Eichel” in Duden online