Ehre

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German

Alternative forms

  • Ehr, Ehr' (now poetic or dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle High German ēre, from Old High German ēra (“honour, fame, sense of honour”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Cognate with Old Norse eir (“pardon, gentleness”), Old Saxon ēra (“honour, protection, pardon, gift”), Old English ār (“honour, help, pardon”), and Latin aes-tumare (“to acknowledge, value”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeːʁə/
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Noun

Ehre f (genitive Ehre, plural Ehren)

  1. honour
    zu seinen Ehren
    in his honour
  2. credit
  3. kudos

Declension

Declension of Ehre
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Ehre die Ehren
genitive einer der Ehre der Ehren
dative einer der Ehre den Ehren
accusative eine die Ehre die Ehren

Derived terms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Ehre”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

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Ehre

  1. plural of Eher

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Ehre

  1. plural of Ehr
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