Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
Wiktionary:Requested entries (German). In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
Wiktionary:Requested entries (German), but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
Wiktionary:Requested entries (German) in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
Wiktionary:Requested entries (German) you have here. The definition of the word
Wiktionary:Requested entries (German) will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
Wiktionary:Requested entries (German), as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Have an entry request? Add it to the list – but please:
- Consider creating a citations page with your evidence that the word exists instead of simply listing it here
- Think twice before adding long lists of words as they may be ignored.
- If possible provide context, usage, field of relevance, etc.
- Check the Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion if you are unsure if it belongs in the dictionary.
- If the entry already exists, but seems incomplete or incorrect, do not add it here; add a request template to the entry itself to ask someone to fix the problem, e.g.
{{rfp}}
or {{rfe}}
for pronunciation or etymology respectively.
- — Note also that such requests, like the information requested, belong on the base form of a word, not on inflected forms.
Please remove entries from this list once they have been written (i.e. the link is “live”, shown in blue, and has a section for the correct language)
There are a few things you can do to help:
- Add glosses or brief definitions.
- Add the part of speech, preferably using a standardized template.
- If you know what a word means, consider creating the entry yourself instead of using this request page.
- Please indicate the gender(s) .
- If you see inflected forms (plurals, past tenses, superlatives, etc.) indicate the base form (singular, infinitive, absolute, etc.) of the requested term and the type of inflection used in the request.
- Don’t delete words just because you don’t know them – it may be that they are used only in certain contexts or are archaic or obsolete.
- Don’t simply replace words with what you believe is the correct form. The form here may be rare or regional. Instead add the standard form and comment that the requested form seems to be an error in your experience.
Requested-entry pages for other languages: Category:Requested entries.
Note
In the case of idioms, it is worth visiting the following page:
https://de.wikipedia.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Liste_deutscher_Redewendungen
Non-letter
- -icht as in felsicht, grasicht, neblicht, steinicht, waldicht + -igt as in buschigt, felsigt, grasigt, nebligt, steinigt, waldigt
- -ermaßen: adverb suffix, as in dermaßen, gleichermaßen, solchermaßen, zugegebenermaßen
- abäugeln ~
to target? ab + Auge + -eln or ab + äugeln (to ogle, win by ogling; Sportsman's expression: to search with the eye, to search the track with the eye)
- Abbindung
- Absurd - an outdated noun for "absurdity". You can find hits for "ein Absurd" in Google Books (I found three, as needed by CFI).
- abwinken
- Achtehalber: a coin: "a term used in Prussia for one-twelfth of a Brandenburg Thaler"
- Albverein m as in http://albverein.net/, looks like it is Alp Association, as in the mountain range. --Pmsyyz (talk) 18:15, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
- Alpenvereinseinteilung f Divisions of the mountain club or mountaineering club
- Alpinstil m: see w:de:Alpinstil, also Kapselstil, a related style in climbing, though I do not know how. See Bergleben.de on styles
- Ambe f: Used in combinatorics - German wiktionary article here: wikt:de:Ambe
- Amtierung The making official of something
- anfeinden
- anheim I think this word occurs only in inflections of verbs with the separable prefix anheim- (in which case it’s similar in nature to zurecht).
- Arbeitsgang m or Arbeitsvorgang m – a single task/step within a workflow, cf. w:de:Arbeitsvorgang
- Arbeitsgenehmigung
- Artamanen
- auf Grund laufen (“to run aground”)
- Aufriss
- Aufsegelung: Used mainly in historical Baltic German context to denote the moment when the Baltics were 'explored' by German merchants etc., 'sailing up' the rivers. You could say it conveyed a sense of determination on the part of those explorers and was surrounded by all kinds of (legendary) origin stories.
- Aufsichtsansatz
- Auftaktigkeit
- Auma – town and river in Thuringia
- Auserkorene f leo.org says it means girlfriend.
- Ausserrhoden as in Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- austorfen appears to be a synonym for die out, past tense is used in the Wikipedia article for Naturschutzgebiet Nieklitzer Moor
- adjectivally used "ausgetorft" in de.wikipedia.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Naturschutzgebiet_Nieklitzer_Moor should be related to Torf and is not related to Tod
- Badstube
- Bäer (= Bär, bear, ursus; mentioned by Schottel, the wordform itself regardless of meaning occurs in enough texts)
- Baggerfahrer excavator driver
- Bahnung = facilitation (in physiological sense)
- ballaballa? balla balla? = eccentric, crazy
- Ballhausplatz, Ballplatz: a square in central Vienna, seat of political power; see Wikipedia
- bämeln
- Barrakuda
- Bastelbude
- Bedeutungsangabe (“explanation of the meaning of a linguistic expression”)
- Bedeutungsbeziehung (“relationship between the meanings of different linguistic expressions”)
- Bedeutungsfeld (“semantic field”)
- Bedeutungsgewinn (“valuation gain”)
- Bedeutungsverlust
- Begehung f = excursion (an East German word)
- indicative imperfect begonnte, begunnte, conjunctive imperfect begönnte, past participle begonnt, begunnt - inflected forms of beginnen.
Also conj. imperf. begünnte? (This form is at least mentioned in and by Adelung.)
Also longer forms like begonnete, begönnete, begunnete, begünnete? (Such forms can be found, though begönnete seems to be rare.)
Also begonnte, begunnte without umlaut in the conjunctive or begönnte, begünnte with umlaut in the indicative similar to weak verb inflection? (In some usages the distinction without umlaut for indicative and with umlaut for conjunctive seems doubtful, e.g. & (begönnete as indicative?), (begönnte as indicative?).)
- Begriffkunst: possibly conceptual art, or idea art?
- Beibehaltungsgenehmigung f
- Beiboot
- Beisel
- Ber/Beer, Bergel, Betzel (= Eber, verres, porcus non castratus; mentioned by Schottel)
- Bår (German or from a dialect? Mentioned in here)
- Bergteer
- Bestäuber
- Bettel (cf. Hungarian betli)
- Bewusstseinslage
- Bezirksverordnete
- Bierspiel n: a class of card games, or one specific game?
- Bildstock m: a type of wayside shrine
- Binnenschiffer m, Binnenschifferin f: boatman
- Bionade-Bourgeoisie f: found here; German hipsters more or less, named for a soft drink that supports organic farms.
- Blasenspiere
- Bläser m - wind musician
- Blockälteste
- Blockwerk - the main chest of pipes on a Medieval organ, operated together rather than with individual stops for each rank
- blodern
- boldern
- Boxemännchen: regional name for Stutenkerl (in Luxembourg)
- Bremsung
- Brettljause: Austrian meat and cheese board
- Briefadel: see Uradel
- Brotkapsel f lunch box
- Brotschrank m breadbox
- Brottorte f Cake made with bread
- Bruch n, pl. Brücher and Brüchen (which would mean that Appendix:German plurals is wrong)? Adelung
- Grimm lists the same passage, "das Wild in Busch und Brüchen" (which comes from this song), but notes the noun is neuter or masculine. "Brüchen" is then the dat. plural, with Brüche as nom. plural. Both of these plurals are already listed in the entry. Megathonic (talk) 00:51, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz n see also BAföG
- Bundesdatenschutzgesetz: federal data protection act; see Wikipedia
- Bundesrechnungshof m (“Federal Audit Office”)
- Bürgerschutz m (“citizens' protection”)
- Bürgersprache f – language of (a) citizen (as opposed to Bauernsprache)
- Burschenschaft f fraternity, see Wikipedia (de/en)
- Büttenredner – this seems to be some sort of master of ceremonies for a carnival
- Buxdorn – old spelling of Buchsdorn, Bocksdorn, used as translation of πυξάκανθα (puxákantha, “lit., boxthorn, in Dioscorides”)
C
D
E
- Ebbelwoi: regional name for Apfelwein
- Edler
- ehevorletzter (-e, -es) (Adj.) - synonym for vorvorletzter, drittletzter
- Eifeler Regel: a phonological process: see Eifeler Regel
- Eigenbistum n, some kind of diocese
- Einfuhrregeln f pl (“import rules”)
- Eingangsformel (w:de:Eingangsformel)
- Einkaufsgenossenschaft f
- Einstärkenbrille f (“single vision glasses”)
- Eisstock m – stone used in Eisstocksport
- Elternbeirat m
- Elwedritsch
- Emballage, Emballagerechnung: something with accounting, though Emballage per se is just packaging
- Empfangsbestätigung
- Endschemasi — See google books:"Endschemasi".
- Entgeistung -- or Entgeisterung, or both?
- Entwicklungsgeschichte f
- entwicklungsgeschichtlich
- Erwachsenen-Punkte – Possible protologism. According to Swedish Wikipedia "Vuxenpoäng" it might be a calqued direct translation of vuxenpoäng (“grown-up point”)
- ette (or Ette?) - regional High German? Also Low German? Meaning: "that female person".
Ungood sources (often about the Ruhrgebiet): "ette sie"; "ette ötte sie, er In vielen Orten ist mit ötte/ette eine Frau gemeint." (in the comments: "Öttche (f) und Ömmes (m)" and "Sie is "Ötte", er is "Ömmes""); : "Ette, Kosebezeichnung für Frauen/Mädchen"; : "ette er oder sie" (cp. : "Ihmchen, Immchen Er oder Sie"); : "Ette = mein Gegenüber, dieser Typ"; : "Ette, ugs. für Sie, Gegenteil von Ihmchen" (cp. "Ihmchen, ugs. für Ihn, Gegenteil von Ette"); : " Meinige, da / Meinige, de || Kosebezeichnung für Ehemann oder Freund / Kosebezeichnung || Immchen / Ette"
- etwar
- Factoring n (“factoring”)
- Fähigkeitskommando
- Fahnenappell
- Fallschwertmaschine
- Fehdewesen n, "feud"?
- Feldgeist ("field spirit" in German folklore): they may include Erbsenbär, Korndämon, Kornhund, Kornkatze, Kornkind, Kornkater, Korneber, Scheunesel, Roggensau, Kornstier, Märzenkalb, Kornkuh, Haferbock, Habergeiß, Weizenvogel, Getreidehahn, Erntehenne, Roggenmuhme, Hafermann, Haferkönig, Haferkönigin, Bilwis, Windsbraut
- Ferienglück
- Fiduz - etymon of Norwegian fidus according to the Norwegian Academy Dictionary
- Finanzierungslösung f (“financing solution”)
- finkeln
- Fitschen: see w:de:Fitschenband
- Flächenachse f: one of the symmetry axes of a cube
- Fleischklops
- Flickschuster
- Florenzer – a Florentine or a pederast
- forma mentis f: 2011, Ronald Benedikter, “Soziales Bank- und Finanzwesen”, in Sozialimpulse 2011-1: “Allerdings rühren auch diese Maßnahmen nicht an den Kern des Problems: An die bisherige Kultur, die “forma mentis” des Umgangs mit Kapital und die Grundmechanismen des internationalen Finanzsystems – also an das finanzpolitische Paradigma, das weitgehend unverändert weiterbesteht.”
- Frankenland n – Area in Southern Germany - Franconia; normally it's called simply Franken.
- Freischütz: see Freischütz: is this includable from mythology, or is it more like a story title?
- Fritz-Walter-Wetter n – heavy rain
- Frolleinwunder, found on Laut.de, on their article on Nena.
- Funsports – skateboarding, frisbee, etc. (Erlebnissports)
- fussig – suggested as possible cognate of English fuzz
- futschikato: see de.wikt
- Fortbildungsprüfungszeugnis n
- flappen (“to flap”)
- Gämmeli - see Old Armenian գոմ (gom)
- ganz egal - Polish term was borrowed from German
- Gebauer m or n - Duden
- Gebelfer n - Duden
- Gebläcke n
- gebundenes Lexem n — See de:gebundenes Lexem.
- Gecker - Grimm
- geflügelte Jahresendsfigur ("winged year-end figure"): satirical East German term for a Christmas angel, due to state disapproval of religion
- Geh. – an abbreviation used by the Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) (example "Geh.Rat Schütte"), possibly short for Geheimnis. See also German wiktionary request | Geh.Rat = Geheimrat, also see w:Geheimrat
- gelb-kittenen – See , , , and .
- inflected form of gelb-kitten, also mentioned as gelbkitten - but all of the four results above seem to go back to w:en:Oskar Panizza (two results are a single usage, two results a single mentioning)
- gelber Onkel
- Geller ~ ricochet?
- Gemengerot
- Gepfül n - Grimm
- 'ger – contraction
- -'ger for -iger, inflected form of -ig, e.g. "wen'ger," "unglücksel'ger", "nächt'ger", "heil'ger"
- Gerümpelplastiken = sculptures made of junk?
- Gesamtausgabe f: complete edition of a composer's works?
- Gesäuse n: a valley in the Alps? - Duden
- Geschäftsunfähigkeit = legal incapacity
- Gewährleistungskarte - "warranty card" apparently, saw it on a leaflet that came with a watch. User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 19:19, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
- Gewicht (“antlers”), a rare form
- Giftpilz
- Glamour
- Glaubensbewegung f
- Glück auf = a miner's greeting wishing one luck in the mines. A contraction of the phrase "Ich wünsche dir Glück, tu einen neuen Gang auf!"
- Gluckschmerz - the opposite of Schadenfreude
- gnä' Frau - Seems to be a polite form of address for a woman. Presumably gnä’ = gnädige (in this context, at least - I don’t know if the contraction is used elsewhere).
- Goaßlschnalzen
- goklenisch – Probably derived from some mathematical/philosophical figure in the early ages, found in Gentzen 1933, Hertz 1929: #* 1929, Paul Hertz, Über Axiomensysteme für beliebige Satzsysteme, in: Mathematische Annalen 101: unter einem goklenischen einen Beweis, in dem alle nicht-tautologischen Untersätze oberste Sätze des Beweises sind. H. (talk) 15:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
- Goldbrücke Found here, sentence "Jene Personen, welche Goldzähne oder eine Goldbrücke hatten, wurden am Rücken mit einem Kreuz gezeichnet"
- Goldi: slang for the alcoholic drink Goldkrone?
- Goldzyaniddämpfen – form of Goldzyaniddämpfe m pl
- Göttergemeinschaft f = "society of gods" (in Thomas Davidson's apeirotheism)
- gotzig
- graue Theorie f – literal: grey theory; phrase or proverb: unproven theory. Link from Wikisource,Philosophical review.
- Not unproven, but "dull, boring theory" (as opposed to "colourful" life itself). From Goethe, Faust: "Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie,/ Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum." ("All theory, dear friend, is grey, / But the golden tree of life is green .", said by Mephistopheles)
- Grittibänz, Grättimaa: regional names for Stutenkerl (in Switzerland)
- Grobianus
- gromberen - etymon of Czech brambor
- Großsegel
- Großtausend – number of 1200, or number of 1.000.000 (i.e. a million), or both depending on author/definition?
- Grundstamm - in Semitic linguistics, the basic (non-derived) form of a verb (often abbreviated to "G"), especially used when discussing Akkadian and Ge'ez verbs
- Gstanzl n some kind of bawdy or satirical song, could also be citable in Alemannic but can certainly be attested as a German loan from Alemannic.
- It's rather a 'loan' from Bavarian than from Allemannic. Standard High German form: Gestanzel n.
H
- hackeln
- häh = huh? (sound of confusion) maybe
- Hakenkreuzler: early proto-Nazi group? cf. Hakenkreuz
- handgemein - only in handgemein werden?
- inflected forms (handgemeine, handgemeinen etc.) do occur in other situations
- Handlungsanweisung
- Handschmeichler - a worry stone
- Hartriegel, Hornstrauch: for both see https://de.wikipedia.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Hartriegel
- hastenichtgesehen: maybe slang for "very fast" (i.e. you didn't see me) ?
- Hax: dialectal short form of Haxe/Hachse? Longtrend (talk)
- Hefekerl: regional name for Stutenkerl (in North Alsace and Moselle)
- Heimatschein
- Heimerzheim - a place in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Heimwerken n (“DIY, home improvement”)
- Held der Arbeit m
- Hemdglunkerumzug
- Heptameride f (“heptamerede”)
- hergebrachtermaszen: hergebrachtermaßen with old 'sz' spelling Longtrend (talk)
- Herrgottsbescheisserle / Herrgottsbescheißerle - Swabian for Maultasche; see Language Log
- herumkommen to get around ,
- Heterosid
- hey another greeting.
- Hiedler - where the name "Hitler" comes from?
- Hochball: a sort of football game; see Englisch
- hochklettern
- Hochzeitssuppe f: a chicken soup; see Hochzeitssuppe
- Hoffjuden
- Hofkammersänger
- Hofmark – w:de:Hofmark.
- Hofmeister
- holla, die Waldfee or possibly holla, Waldfee: exclamation of surprise or something?
- Honoratiorensprache f – language of the notabilities
- Hoppel
- Hügelkultur f: The practice of making raised garden beds filled with rotting wood.
- Huppe: seems to be older form of Hupe, originally "Kinderpfeife aus Weidenrinde"
- Hypothesεως (gen. sg.), form of Hypothesis, as in .. Deliciæ Ebræo-Homileticæ, Das ist: Ergretzligkeiten der Ebräischen Sprache ... nebst Beyfügung, der neuen Hypothesεως, Herrn Caspar Neumanns ...
- Hypotheseωs as in: "von der Wahrheit der so genannten Osiandrischen Hypotheseωs" ()
- herumschrauben
I
- Jagdwurst: type of sausage; see Jagdwurst
- Jalla-Jalla, as a noun: Babak erinnerte immer wieder daran, dass es sich in Leipzig auch nur um zwei Spinner gehandelt haben könnte, die auf eigene Faust losgezogen sind und die Sache mit ein bisschen Jalla-Jalla größer machen wollten.__Gamren (talk) 18:57, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- (This "Jalla-Jalla" is from the Arabic term ياالله, yalla!, meaning "c'mon, hurry". I don't think it qualifies as a German word. I really don't know how to handle a term like that. —Stephen (Talk) 11:03, 6 January 2019 (UTC))
- has an interjection Jalla, , have an interjection jalla. Jalla-Jalla n (“the uttering of "jalla, jalla"”) would be a substantivisation.
- Judenlettern
- Judenpech = Jew's pitch (bitumen)
- Judenrampe: rail platform for prisoners arriving at a concentration camp
- Jugendfreizeiteinrichtung f
- juten slang for guten. Missing German section. Example: "Schönen juten Tach!"
- Shouldn't the lemma be jut? – Jberkel 23:08, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
K
- Kaasspatzen f – shouldn’t that be Kässpatzen or Käsespätzle (the latter is Swabian)
- In my opinion, Kaasspatzen is a regional variant form of Käsespätzle, a common dish in the Alemannic speaking areas of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein (Schwaben, Allgäu, Schweiz, Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg). See Kässpatzen at de.wp for more.
- Kasspatzen, Kässpatzen might be more common, though still be rather rare
- Kaiserschmarrn, Kaiserschmarren ("emperor's mess"), a kind of sweet pancake; see Kaiserschmarrn.
- Kammersänger, honorific title for singers - please see Kammersänger.
- Kammerspielfilm m; see Kammerspielfilm.
- Kardätsche: maybe a kind of brush for a horse
- Kasachstandeutsche
- Kässchmier
- Kaulbarsch
- kindersprachlich
- Kiepenkerl, Klaaskerl: regional names for Stutenkerl (in North Alsace and Moselle)
- Kipferl: kind of bread roll?
- Seems to be a variant of Kipfl.
- kitschen (“to smear”)
- Kittenen – See Citations:Kittenen#German citations of Kittenen
- related to Quitte (plural Quitten) and Kitten (plural - also singular or in singular *Kitte?). Maybe it's a plural Kittenen for Kitten (which would mean the entry in Spieser's dictionary is wrong regarding number). A singular Kitten is indeed sometimes mentioned. Another less common form might be Kütten, plural Küttenen
- Klemperer - tinker; surname
- klenkes – a sign of greeting in the town of Aachen, Germany. See de:klenkes
- Knas = alt form of Knast
- Knautsch
- Knortz (“outgrowth, knot”) - related to older Danish knort and Norwegian knort
- Knulle – potato, southern Brandenburg. See w:de:Kartoffel#Regionale_Namen.
- looks like a regional or dialectal form of Knolle. Germaniens Völkerstimmen has a text from Deutsch-Wartenberg im Grünberger Kreise (Silesia) with "de Knull'n" (= die Kartoffeln), sufficient for attesting a dialectal term.
- Kohlfahrt: North German tradition of hiking through the woods, then gathering for a meal of kale with bacon or sausage
- Kopfzeug
- Koryza
- Krakeeler
- Krankenwagenjäger = ambulance chaser
- Kreuzallergie: German Wikipedia has article: maybe cross-reactivity in allergic reactions?
- Kriminal
- krummgetreten
- Krümmer
- Kuhblasen = cow blowing
- Kultusministerkonferenz f (“Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany”)
- Kumt
- kunnte, kunte, gekunnt (= konnte, konte, gekonnt)
- Kampfmittelaltlasten - UXO?
- Kunstkammer
- Kurrent: style of German handwriting; see Kurrent
- Various synonyms or hyponyms of Koriander: echter Koriander, Arabische Petersilie, Asiatische Petersilie, Chinesische Petersilie, Gartenkoriander, gebauter Koriander, Gewürzkoriander, Indische Petersilie, Kaliander, Klanner, Schwindelkorn, Schwindelkraut, Stinkdill, Wandläusekraut, Wanzendill, Wanzenkraut, Wanzenkümmel
M
N
- Pädagogium, a type of school
- pah! interjection, possibly same as English
- Pantoffelregiment, Pantoffel-Regiment; old (archaic/obsolete?) word related to dominant women and henpecked men
- Parochie
- Passivhaus
- paurisch
- Pawirpen (from Low Prussian dialect) → plural form of Pawirp, an alternative form of Powirp
- Pfarre
- Pflaumenmus
- from Pferd: there is a phrase like mit ihm kann man Pferde stehlen; what is it?
- Pinzgau: a region of Germany?
- Piz This might be a Swiss-German term referring to a mountain top, e.g. w:de:Piz Buin. It stems from the Romansh word 'piz' for 'peak'. --91.61.108.148 02:10, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
- Does anyone know: Is this Alemannic, or a German term used regionally in Switzerland, or both? And can someone say "Endlich seh ich den Piz!" Or is it only used in geographical names? – Gormflaith (talk) 16:15, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- duden.de has it as Piz and in placenames Piz Palü, Piz Buin, Piz Bernina. The entry Piz has "Bergspitze (meist als Teil von Bergnamen, z. B. Piz Palü)", i.e. "mountain peak (mostly as part of mountain names, e.g. )". This would mean that the term is also non-Alemannic NHG and does sometimes occur outside of fixed place names. However, in a short google book search, I only saw Piz in place names. As for a start, how about a NHG entry Piz with a sense like "# {{lb|de|in place names}} mountain peak, peak of mountain" and with related terms like Piz Palü? If Piz is attested outside of place names, the label could be adjusted to "mostly in place names".
- Plenken: "typographical term for the insertion of inappropriate spaces before a punctuation mark"; and Klempen, same thing but after the punctuation mark.
- Poch - an early card game similar to poker, from which ‘poker’ derives its name or a similar current card game. There are several variant forms of this word too, see ‘Poch’ on Wikipedia for more info.
- Poetaster
- Polenaktion f Roundup of people in Poland
- Pommesgabel or Pommespicker = sign of the horns (according to Wikipedia)
- Possenreißer
- Poststelle f (“mail room, post office”)
- Powerhalse: sth in windsurfing
- Prickler m: prickles?, some kind of
prickly fizzy? drink (probably mix of beer or wine and lemonade)
- There is a German verb prickeln. Prickler is also a surname in Germany. Perhaps, you should add some context just to clarify the meaning of 'Prickler'.
- pups? Pups? apparently it's a fart sound
- Prosubstantiv n
Q
- ℛℳ (RM) = Reichsmark, (Rpf, different from ℛ₰) = Reichspfennig
- R-Wert m (“R number”)
- Rabulismus m: w:de:Rabulistik
- Raff: like going super fast, right? (I don't think so. To me it means up-take, gathering)
- Rammelkammer - a long hole bored into the trunk of a tree by a beetle
- Ramscheln (see Wikipedia and Ramsch)
- Rätedemokratie
- Realitätsabbildung f: Realität + Abbildung
- rechtseindeutig
- rechtsvollständig
- Registrierzentrum n (“registration centre”)
- Reichspfennigmeister
- Reichsthaler m: old coin or something. Modern spelling is Reichstaler m.
- Reihn m shortened form of Reigen (see w:de:Reigen). Used in Goethe's poem "Erlkönig".
- Reithalle
- Rekordzahlen f pl (“record numbers, record figures”)
- Remittendentisch m table in bookstores with books at reduced prices
- Rentenpfennig: old currency unit, the "penny" of the Rentenmark
- Reservearznei f (“reserve medication”)
- resümieren ≈ summarize
- Rettungsboje = rescue buoy (distinct from a life buoy); see also Rettungsboje (Wehrmacht) from WW2
- Riege - blue link but missing definition: "Riege, the German name for the Rīdzene, a tributary of the Daugava river."
- We don't even have an English entry for this river, and it's not mentioned on Wikipedia. pass for now. – Jberkel 12:49, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Ringelpiez, Ringelpietz = type of social gathering with dancing; see de.wikipedia
- Röckchen = snowflake, in Silesian dialect?
- de:w:Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen: "Weißröckchen, ein schlesisches Synonym für Schneeflocke". Whether this is correct and attestable and also a meaning of just Röckchen is another thing.
- Roggenstein: "a kind of oolite in which the grains are cemented by argillaceous matter"
- Roggenwulf: a mythical wolfish creature that inhabits grain-fields
- Rotpunkt - see etymology for redpoint, a rock climbing term. - TheDaveRoss 13:11, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
- Rücktreibarkeit - Die Eigenschaft eines Antriebsstranges, die eine Bewegung durch einen Menschen auch im stromlosen Zustand ermöglicht, bezeichnet man als Rücktreibbarkeit. Der Antrieb hemmt sich dabei nicht selbst.
- Rüde f (Adalbert Kuhn: "eine große schwarze Rüde") – female big dog? Is it common enough?
- Adalbert Kuhn (1859) Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen (in German), F. A. Brockhaus, page 59
- I think this refers to a strong, aggressive dog here, perhaps with regional variation regarding the gender. Or some mythological creature? It's found in a collection of folk tales. – Jberkel 17:18, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
- Rumfort-Pfanne - a dish
- Saatgut
- Salniter – synonym of Salpeter , or different from it , or both depending on definition/author?
- Saße - listed in Estonian etymological dictionaries as meaning "place of living", "abode". See the second entry here. Appears to be related to sitzen, although this is just a guess. Online German dictionaries do not seem to list this word at all. Relevant to determining the etymology of kadakasakslane. Estonian etymological dictionaries say it is a phono-semantic matching of the German word Katensaße, but it is unclear if this word exists.
- Sämerei
- Sängerbund m: singers' union; association of singers or singing clubs.
- sassisch
- Sauzahn, literally "sow tooth"; part of a hoe? See Hoe (tool). Not same as sawtooth!
- Schaber
- Schacherei f
- Schafkopf, Schaffkopf, Schafkopfen: a card game; see Wikipedia
- Schaftstiefelgrotesk
- Schaller: kettle hat?
- Schäumchen n
- Schaumkraut
- Scheinsicherheit f - "Pseudo-safety," or a false sense of security.
- Schinkenfleckerl - Austrian baked ham pasta
- schlackenlos – slagless
- Schlachteplatte, Schlachtplatte, Schlachtschüssel, Metzgete: see Schlachteplatte.
- Schlagball: a game; see Schlagball
- Schlangeneidechse f: lizard of genus Tetradactylus
- Schlauraffenland: probably obsolete form of Schlaraffenland
- schlenzrig: dialectal for matschig/schlabberig/sabschig/..? Appears in a couple of cookbooks on books.google
- Schlotte
- Schmiss (“dueling scar”)
- Schnate (“wound, border”) - see Old Norse naddr
- Schnau - see Serbo-Croatian шну
- Schragen
- Schraubthaler
- schreib dir das hinter die Ohren
- Schuhplatten | should be Schuhplatteln (“the act of dancing the Schuhplattler”) or Schuhplattler, see w:Schuhplattler --MaEr (talk) 19:41, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
- Schulgipfel m (“school summit”)
- Schunkeln – dance style?
- Schwabbelbacke f
- Schwadrone f - alt form of Schwadron f?
- Schwebung
- Schwefelsee, Schwefelgrube f: possibly meaning solfatara?
- schwuppsdiwupps: apparently slang for "very fast, lickety-split"?
- Schwurschädel (often translated as “oath skull”) - a skull that defendants and witnesses in a Vehmic court would swear on
- Sehfeld n (“field of view”)
- sehr geehrter – means 'dear' but could do with literal translation and usage details.
- Seidenspinner
- Seilchenspringen n
- Selbstbeschäftigung – in the sense of 'being obsessed with one's own issues' (as here: ), and other sense googling suggest: 'self-employment', 'children keeping themselves busy'
- Senke f
- Sibirienzulage
- Sickergrube
- Siegfriedstellung
- Silesian personal and possessive pronouns. They also need an explanation of the forms: Are some forms in spelling similar to non-dialectal High German (e.g. Dir/Dich) even if it sounds differently, or do some forms belong to different sub-dialects (e.g. Dich vs. Dihch (Diech))? Are some forms clitic or weak (e.g. De), or are some used for emphasis (e.g. Dihch)?
- Karl von Holtei:
- 1st ps. sg.: ich/ihch, dat. mir/mer, acc. mich/mihch; mei' (also mein in "mein Got'", dat. meinem, acc. meinen; m.) / / mei' (dat. meinem, also mei'm, n.)
- 2nd ps. sg.: Du/De , Dir/Der, Dich/Dihch; (Dein, dat. Deinem, acc. Deinen, m.) / Deine (f., dat. Deiner) / Dei' (n., dat. Deinem) / Deine (pl., dat. Deinen)
- Robert Rößler:
- 1st ps. sg.: ich/ihch, mir/mer, mich/mihch; mei (m.&n.)
- 2nd ps. sg.: du, dir, dich (dihch; Dich); dei (n.)
- Max Heinzel:
- 1st ps. sg.: ich/iech, (mir)/mer, miech;
- 2nd ps. sg.: Du, Diech; Dei (m.) / Dei' (n.)
- sich keine Verzierung abbrechen - and related idioms
- Sinfonietta (“sinfonietta”) – seemingly coined from Italian roots by Joachim Raff in 1874; perhaps whence the English sinfonietta (German term first attested in 1874, English in 1881, and Italian in 1884; French symphoniette first attested in 1872)
- Slipmat
- sodala
- Sonderfahndungsliste
- Sondergotter
- Spalier
- Spartakiade
- Spätaussiedler
- Spatensoldat m (s. Bausoldat)
- Speciesthaler / Speciestaler / Speziestaler: a silver coin; see Speciesthaler
- Speisenweihe, Speisensegnung — apparently the Austrian/German equivalent to Polish święconka
- spezifisches Epitheton n (“specific epithet”)
- Spielshow
- Spießerei f gunfight, shooting → no, it's not "gunfight" or "shooting" (that would be "Schießerei"). Spießerei means Philistinism
- Spießertum n Philistinism
- Spillflöte
- Spitzflöte
- spoliieren (veraltet) equiv. to spoil, from Latin spoliare - Duden Universalwörterbuch 2006.
- According to duden.de it's "veraltet, noch landschaftlich", thus not (just) "veraltet"
- Sportrechtshandel f (“the buying and selling of sports rights”)
- Sprachbild (literally “language picture”) (see de.wiktionary)
- sprachlehrig (“grammatical”): Sprachlehre (“grammar”) + -ig
- Sprechstundenhilfe f ≈ Arzthelferin
- Springwurzel
- Spritzung squirting
- Ssabier (alt form of Sabier, Sabäer = Sabian, maybe having another alt form Zabier?)
- ßich (alt form of ſich) - Zipser German. Attestable (e.g. in the works of w:de:Claus Stephani or w:de:Anton-Joseph Ilk, of which google only gives some snippets not revealing whether it's complete Zipser text or something else)?
- Staatsroman m – see w:de:Staatsroman. "For example, the organizationally oriented Staatsroman of eighteenth-century Germany which plotted out the perfect state was no longer a useful sort of text at a time when the structures of domination were firmly set in place." (Tom Moylan, Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination , pp. 5–6.)
- Stadtschnellbahn f
- Stammtischsätze – ? maybe Stammtischgespräch?
- Standgebläse - slang for short girl
- Stellplatzverordnung
- Stock im Arsch = stick up one's ass
- stopeln (“to be stiff”) - see German stolpern
- Stoßtrupp - shock troop
- Streif (“wisp”), as in Nebelstreif or in Silberstreif
- Streitigkeiten pl (not sure if the singular is ever used)
- streitschlichtend, Streitschlichtung
- striezen (Verb)
- Strohbass = vocal fry?
- Stumpf und Stiel - mainly used in etwas mit Stumpf und Stiel ausrotten, but appears in other contexts
- Stutenkerl, Stutenmann: a kind of festive pastry; see WP
- Südwestfunk m – proper noun, name of a radio/tv station (south-west + Funk) It no longer exists. It has merged with Süddeutscher Rundfunk to form Südwestrundfunk.
- super- Prefix meaning very (as in superkurz and supertoll, for example). Mainly colloquial, I think. Some more examples: superlaut, supersauber, supergeil, supermegapeinlich.
- Swingheinis "swing kids"? young swing music subculture during Nazism
- See also Swingjugend – Jberkel 03:21, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
- schmeichen - see German Schminke
T
V
W
- Wasserschläuch – synonym of Schlauch (“waterskin”)?
- Weckmann = regional (west and southwest) name for Stutenkerl
- wegfetzen
- Wehrbauer
- Wehweh, Wehwehchen
- Weihnachtsgurke = Christmas pickle
- Weihnukka = Chrismukkah
- weltbeste, weltbestem, weltbesten, weltbester, weltbestes - world’s best (I would add these myself, but I’m not sure how to do the entries - the corresponding words without welt- are done as inflections of gut, but I don’t think there’s such a word as weltgut.)
- Weltinnenraum m
- Weltgeistlicher m – world priest? a priest of the world spirit
- wenn es dem Esel zu wohl ist, geht er aufs Eis tanzen - proverb, described here:
- wennst
- Wertantinomie f contradiction of values
- Westwall = Siegfried Line?
- Wettanbieter m
- Wetterspaß m (“enjoyment of the prevailing weather conditions”)
- Wibele: type of Swabian biscuit; see Wibele and
- wie eine Primel eingehen = be shy, introverted, a wallflower?
- Windkessel
- Windtorte: type of cake; see Spanische Windtorte
- Winterspeck
- Wildschutzgebiet: wildlife conservation area?
- Wirbelrohr: (a kind of) vortex tube?
- Wollwurst: type of sausage made from veal and pork
X, Y
Z
- "Damit ist kein Blumentopf zu gewinnen": please create an appropriate entry for this idiom: might be "nothing to write home about".
- "das ist unser Mann! der hört doch das Gras wachsen auf der Rennbahn!": entry required for the idiom das Gras wachsen hören = hear the grass grow
- "ach du grüne Neune!" (green nine: something like oh dear?!)
- There is a German phrase meaning "hit the chicken", meaning "go to bed" (like hit the sack): I suppose because a pillow may be stuffed with chicken feathers. What is it?
- There's in die Federn, in den Federn and aus den Federn meaning literally “into the feathers, in the feathers, out of the feathers” as in Ab in die Federn! (lit. “off, into the feathers!”) “hit the chicken!”, in den Federn liegen (lit. “lay in the feathers”) “be, lay in bed”, früh aus den Federn müssen (lit. “to must out of the feathers early”) “to have to get up early”, Raus aus den Federn! (lit. “get out of the feathers!”) “rise and shine!” — Caligari ƆɐƀïиϠႵ 03:48, 26 November 2019 (UTC)