Lawine

See also: lawine

German

Etymology

From Alemannic German Lauwin, from Middle High German lowin, *lawene (compare Bavarian Laun, Lan), from Old High German lowin, lewina, from Late Latin labina, from Latin lābī (“to glide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈviːnə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːnə

Noun

Lawine f (genitive Lawine, plural Lawinen)

1. avalanche

Declension

Declension of Lawine [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Lawine	die	Lawinen
genitive	einer	der	Lawine	der	Lawinen
dative	einer	der	Lawine	den	Lawinen
accusative	eine	die	Lawine	die	Lawinen

Derived terms

• Blechlawine
• Gerölllawine
• Lawinengalerie
• Lawinenrucksack

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: лавина (lavina)
• → Czech: lavina
• → Danish: lavine
• → Dutch: lawine
• → English: lauwine, lawine
• → Estonian: laviin
• → Italian: lavina
• → Hungarian: lavina
• → Latvian: lavīna
• → Lithuanian: lavina
• → Luxembourgish: Lawin
• → Norwegian: lavine
• → Polish: lawina
• → Russian: лави́на (lavína)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: лавина
  • Latin script: lavina
• → Slovene: lavína
• → Swedish: lavin

Further reading

• “Lawine” in Duden online
• “Lawine” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache