Friedhof
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vrīthof, from Old High German frīthof, derived from frīten (“to enclose”) + Hof (“yard”). In Early Modern German, the word came to be associated with distantly related Frieden (“peace”), probably at first through interaction of diphthongising and non-diphthongising dialects, but then leading to semantic remotivation as “place of final peace”. Cognate with archaic Dutch vrijthof.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Friedhof m (strong, genitive Friedhofes or Friedhofs, plural Friedhöfe)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Friedhof [masculine, strong]
Related terms
[edit]- Frieden m
- Friedhofsgärtner m (“cemetery gardner”)
- Friedhofskapelle f (“cemetery chapel”)
- Hof m
Further reading
[edit]- “Friedhof” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Friedhof” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Friedhof” in Duden online
- Friedhof on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Friedhof”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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