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schwanger

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See also: schwänger

German

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃvaŋər/, [ˈʃʋäŋɐ]
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Adjective

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schwanger (strong nominative masculine singular schwangerer, not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. (chiefly colloquial, sometimes frowned upon) pregnant, gravid (of animals)
    Synonym: trächtig
  3. (poetic) full of, laden with

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “schwanger”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

Further reading

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

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Etymology

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From Middle High German swanger, from Old High German swangar. Cognate with German schwanger and Yiddish שווענגערן (shvengern).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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schwanger

  1. pregnant

Further reading

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