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German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle High German scheme m, f, from Old High German *skemo m, skema f, from Proto-Germanic *skīmô, *skimô, *skimō.
The word meant “mask” in Upper German, but “shadow, silhouette” in Central and Low German; compare Middle Low German schēme, from Old Saxon skimo. The modern meaning is based on the northern usage, in part after Luther.
Cognate with Middle Dutch scheme alongside the stem variant schim (“shadow”). Also related with German schimmern, English shimmer, Dutch schemering (“twilight”).
Noun
Schemen m (strong, genitive Schemens, plural Schemen)
- an indistinct shape or shadow; a silhouette in the dark, in mist, etc.
- a sight of whose reality one is uncertain; an illusion, spectre, phantom
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
Schemen
- plural of Schema
Further reading
- “Schemen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache