Eichel

German

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯çl̩/

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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. glans (vascular body which forms the apex of the penis)

Declension

Declension of Eichel

	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