Geisel

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Geisel.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Gei‧sel
  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

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Geisel (plural Geisels)

  1. A surname from German.

Anagrams

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German

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German Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle High German gīsel, from Old High German gīsal, from Proto-West Germanic *gīsl, from Proto-Germanic *gīslaz.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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Geisel f (genitive Geisel, plural Geiseln)

  1. hostage
    • 2012, Simon Kernick, Das Ultimatum: Thriller, Heyne (publisher) (e-book edition without page numbers):
      Und wir haben ein Hotel voller Geiseln, darunter den stellvertretenden Direktor des MI6. [...] Wenn ihr uns den Zugang sperrt, wird alle fünf Minuten eine Geisel sterben.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      And we have a hotel full of hostages, including the Depute Director of MI6...if you block the exit, one hostage will die every five minutes
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Noun

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Geisel m (strong, genitive Geisels, plural Geisel)

  1. (archaic) hostage
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Etymology 2

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See the main lemma.

Noun

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Geisel f (genitive Geisel, plural Geiseln)

  1. Obsolete form (now misspelling) of Geißel (scourge)

Etymology 3

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Proper noun

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die Geisel f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Geisel)

  1. A river in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Proper noun

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Geisel m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Geisels or (with an article) Geisel, plural Geisels or Geisel)

  1. a surname

Further reading

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  • Geisel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Geisel” in Duden online

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Geisel.

Proper noun

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Geisel m or f by sense

  1. a surname from German