benommen
Appearance
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Participle
[edit]benommen
Etymology 2
[edit]From etymology 1 specifically in the now archaic sense of "to take away", probably from the idea of being "bereft of one's senses". The past participle being applied to the person and not to what was taken is unusual, but historically there was also a usage of the verb with the person as the accusative object and that which was taken as a genitive object, as in (and perhaps influenced by) berauben.
Adjective
[edit]benommen (strong nominative masculine singular benommener, comparative benommener, superlative am benommensten)
- dazed; numb
- 1896, Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest[1], Berlin: F. Fontane & Co.:
- Effi war so erregt, daß sie nichts sah und nur dem letzten Wagen, auf dessen Höhe ein Bremser saß, ganz wie benommen nachblickte.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “benommen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “benommen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
- “benehmen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.