Kehle
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German kële, from Old High German kela, from Proto-West Germanic *kelā, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ. Cognate with English jowl (“loose flesh around the cheeks and lower jaw”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Kehle f (genitive Kehle, plural Kehlen, diminutive Kehlchen n or Kehllein n)
- throat (front of the neck)
- Synonyms: (informal) Gurgel, (interior only) Rachen, Schlund
- Der Husten kam tief aus der Kehle.
- The cough came from deep down the throat.
- Die kamen auf mich zu und wollten mir an die Kehle.
- They came at me and wanted to beat me up.
- (literally, “...wanted [to get] at my throat.”)
- 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 87:
- Die Kehle war mir wie ausgetrocknet. Ich konnte die Worte nur noch mühsam hervorquälen.
- My throat felt like it had dried-up. I could only painstakingly force the words out.
- (engineering) fillet
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Kehle | die | Kehlen |
| genitive | einer | der | Kehle | der | Kehlen |
| dative | einer | der | Kehle | den | Kehlen |
| accusative | eine | die | Kehle | die | Kehlen |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Kehle” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Kehle”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
- “Kehle” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Kehle” in Duden online
Kehle on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Kehle”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Pennsylvania German
[edit]Noun
[edit]Kehle
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