Schwelle
Appearance
See also: schwelle
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German swelle, from Old High German swelli, swella, from Proto-Germanic *swalī, from Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“piece of wood; beam, post, balk, board, threshold, sill”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Schwelle f (genitive Schwelle, plural Schwellen)
- threshold
- (rail transport) ellipsis of Bahnschwelle: railroad tie, railway sleeper
- 1913 [1878], chapter 31, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina[1], translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 7:
- ›Dorthin!‹ sagte sie zu sich selbst, indem sie in den Schatten blickte, den der Wagen warf, und ihre Augen auf den mit Kohlen vermischten Sand richtete, mit dem die Schwellen bedeckt waren.
- "There," she said to herself, looking into the shadow of the carriage, at the sand and coal dust which covered the sleepers— "there, in the very middle, and I will punish him and escape from everyone and from myself."
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Schwelle | die | Schwellen |
| genitive | einer | der | Schwelle | der | Schwellen |
| dative | einer | der | Schwelle | den | Schwellen |
| accusative | eine | die | Schwelle | die | Schwellen |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: svelle
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