happig
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Bavarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally, "greedy, excessive, difficult to swallow", 18th-century creation apparently from happ, imitative of the sound of snapping. Possibly borrowed from German Low German; compare Low German happen, happen (“to snap, to devour”). Compare German happig.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]happig (comparative happiger, superlative happigstn)
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally, "greedy, excessive, difficult to swallow", 18th-century creation apparently from happ, imitative of the sound of snapping. Possibly borrowed from German Low German; compare Low German happen, happen (“to snap, to devour”). Related to German Happen (“bite-sized piece, bite”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]happig (strong nominative masculine singular happiger, comparative happiger, superlative am happigsten)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
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- Bavarian onomatopoeias
- Bavarian terms derived from German Low German
- Bavarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Bavarian lemmas
- Bavarian adjectives
- German onomatopoeias
- German terms derived from German Low German
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German adjectives