Ziel

See also: ziel

German

Etymology

From Middle High German zil, from Old High German zil, from Proto-West Germanic *til, from Proto-Germanic *tilą. Cognate to Old English til.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Audio:

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Noun

Ziel n (strong, genitive Zieles or Ziels, plural Ziele)

1. target
2. goal (not in football, see Tor)
3. aim
4. purpose
5. destination
6. finish line (in skiing)

Declension

Declension of Ziel [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Ziel	die	Ziele
genitive	eines	des	Zieles, Ziels	der	Ziele
dative	einem	dem	Ziel, Ziele1	den	Zielen
accusative	ein	das	Ziel	die	Ziele

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

adjectives

• zielbewusst
• zielführend
• zielgerichtet
• ziellos
• zielorientiert
• zielstrebig

compound nouns ending with -ziel

• Emissionsreduktionsziel
• Endziel
• Klimaziel
• Lebensziel
• Reiseziel

compound nouns beginning with Ziel-

• Zielfunktion
• Zielgerade
• Zielgruppe
• Ziellinie
• Zielort
• Zielperson
• Zielscheibe
• Zielsetzung
• Zielstellung

verbs

• ins Ziel gehen
• zielen

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Ziel
• → Bulgarian: цел (cel)
• → Czech: cíl
• → Hungarian: cél
  • → Romanian: țel, țil
• → Macedonian: цел (cel)
• → Polish: cel, cyl, czel (Middle Polish)
  • → Belarusian: цэль (celʹ)
  • → Esperanto: celo
  • → Kashubian: cél
  • → Slovincian: cél
  • → Russian: цель (celʹ), цѣль (cělʹ) — pre-1918 spelling
    • → Yakut: сыал (sïal)
  • → Ukrainian: ціль (cilʹ)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: ци̑љ
  • Latin script: cȋlj
• → Slovak: cieľ
• → Slovene: cilj

Further reading

• “Ziel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Ziel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Ziel” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German zil, from Old High German zil, from Proto-Germanic *tilą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡siːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Syllabification: Ziel

Noun

Ziel m (plural Ziel)

1. goal

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Ziel”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch