Widersacher

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German widersache, from Old High German widersahho, from Proto-West Germanic *wiþrasakō. The final -r is due to influence of the suffix -er, which is often used for agent nouns.[1]

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Noun

Widersacher m (strong, genitive Widersachers, plural Widersacher, feminine Widersacherin)

  1. adversary

Declension

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Widersacher”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

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