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English
Etymology
From a German surname.
Proper noun
Handel
- A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.
2014 April 17, Tom Service, “Handel's Messiah: the sound of our better selves”, in The Guardian:Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its first performance in 1742.
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Dutch
Etymology
First attested as haenle in 1326. Compound of haan (“rooster, black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)”) and lo (“light forest”).
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Proper noun
Handel n
- A village in Gemert-Bakel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
- Synonym: Bergkneuterrijk (Carnival nickname)
References
- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN
German
Etymology
From handeln, later specialized to its current meaning.
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Noun
Handel m (strong, genitive Handels, plural Händel)
- deal
- trade, trading
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Related terms
- Handelsabkommen, Handelsblatt, Handelsdefizit, Handelsembargo, Handelsform, Handelshaus, Handelskammer, Handelskrieg, Handelsmarke, Handelsname, Handelsplatz, Handelssprache, Handelsvertrag, Handelsweg
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