schwanger
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See also: schwänger
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German swanger, from Old High German swangar, from Proto-West Germanic *swangr (“heavy”), further origin unknown.[1] Cognate with Old English swangor, Dutch zwanger (“pregnant”), and Yiddish שוואַנגער (shvanger, “pregnant”); compare also Lithuanian sunkùs (“heavy; difficult”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]schwanger (strong nominative masculine singular schwangerer, not comparable)
- pregnant (of humans) [with mit (+ dative) ‘with a child’ and von (+ dative) ‘from the father’]
- Synonyms: in anderen Umständen, in Hoffnung, guter Hoffnung
- Sie ist schwanger von ihrem Mann Peter mit ihrem dritten Kind.
- She is pregnant from her husband Peter with her third child.
- (chiefly colloquial, sometimes frowned upon) pregnant, gravid (of animals)
- Synonym: trächtig
- (poetic) full of, laden with
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of schwanger (uncomparable)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “schwanger”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “schwanger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “schwanger” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “schwanger” in Duden online
Hunsrik
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German swanger, from Old High German swangar. Cognate with German schwanger and Yiddish שווענגערן (shvengern).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]schwanger
Further reading
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