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German
Etymology
Unzeit + -ig
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʊnt͡saɪ̯tɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈʊnt͡saɪ̯tɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
- Hyphenation: un‧zei‧tig
Adjective
unzeitig (strong nominative masculine singular unzeitiger, comparative unzeitiger, superlative am unzeitigsten)
- untimely
- 1912, Martin Luther, Lutherbibel von 1912, Ecclesiastes 6:3 (with KJV translation)
Wenn einer gleich hundert Kinder zeugte und hätte langes Leben, daß er viele Jahre überlebte, und seine Seele sättigte sich des Guten nicht und bliebe ohne Grab, von dem spreche ich, daß eine unzeitige Geburt besser sei denn er.- If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
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