Fenster
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German venster, from Old High German fenstar, from Proto-West Germanic *fenestr (“window”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fenster n (strong, genitive Fensters, plural Fenster, diminutive Fensterchen n or Fensterlein n)
- window
- sich weit aus dem Fenster lehnen ― to go out on a limb
- Sie schaute auf dem Fenster. ― She looked out the window.
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 9:
- So dunkel und schauerlich die Gruft aussah, wenn man durch die blinden, bestaubten Scheibchen der kleinen Fenster hineinblickte, so hell und freundlich war oben die Kirche.
- Just as dark and eerie the crypt looked like, if one looked in it through the cloudy, dusted little panes of the small windows, as bright and friendly was the church above.
- (figuratively) time frame
- Synonym: Zeitfenster
Declension
[edit]Declension of Fenster [neuter, strong]
Hyponyms
[edit]- Autofenster
- Balkonfenster
- Bogenfenster
- Coupéfenster
- Dachfenster
- Dialogfenster
- Dreiecksfenster
- französisches Fenster
- Giebelfenster
- Hochschiebefenster
- Kapellenfenster
- Kellerfenster
- Kippfenster
- Kirchenfenster
- Klofenster
- Koppelfenster
- Küchenfenster
- Kunststofffenster
- Lüftungsfenster
- Maßwerkfenster
- Radfenster
- Rautenfenster
- Rundbogenfenster
- Schaufenster
- Schiebefenster
- Schlafzimmerfenster
- Segmentbogenfenster
- Seitenfenster
- Spitzbogenfenster
- Sprossenfenster
- Torfenster
- Türfenster
- Verandafenster
- Vertikalschiebefenster
- Wohnzimmerfenster
- Zeitfenster
- Zimmerfenster
- Zugfenster
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Hunsrik
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Central Franconian [Term?], from Middle High German venster, from Old High German fenstar, from Proto-West Germanic *fenestr, a borrowing from Latin fenestra.[1]
Cognate with German Fenster and Luxembourgish Fënster.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fenster n (plural Fenster or Fenstre)
- pane of glass, windowpane
- Ich mache die Fenster sauber.
- I clean the window panes.
References
[edit]- ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Fenster”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 48
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