Metze
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German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From a regional variant of Mechthild, perhaps influenced by Magd.
Noun
[edit]Metze f (genitive Metze, plural Metzen)
- (obsolete, derogatory) prostitute, whore
- 1914, Johannes R. Becher, “Päan des Aufruhrs”, in Verfall und Triumph:
- Ihr Hurenvölker, Metzen, aller Länder Schlampen! / Die euch zermalmt, steinerne Flut, sie naht.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Metze [feminine]
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Middle High German metze m, from Old High German mezza f, mezzo m. Perhaps related to messen (“to measure”). Cognate with Old English mitta.
Noun
[edit]Metze f (genitive Metze, plural Metzen)
- (obsolete) a dry measure for corn
Declension
[edit]Declension of Metze [feminine]
Etymology 3
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Metze m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Metzes or (with an article) Metze, feminine genitive Metze, plural Metzes or Metze)
- a surname
Further reading
[edit]Metze on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Metze” in Duden online
- “Metze” in Duden online
- “Metze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Metze”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 476
- “Metze” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Metze” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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