Gerte

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German gerte, Old High German gartia (rod, twig, staff), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀdi (staff, rod, twig).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛʁtə
  • Hyphenation: Ger‧te

Noun

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Gerte f (genitive Gerte, plural Gerten)

  1. (horse-riding) crop (a whip without a lash)

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Gerte”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891