Geige – German noun declension

Noun: Geige
Gender: Feminine
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Nominative

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Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Geige

Teetasse, Hemmschwelle, Türangel, Entspannungspause, Umgehungsstraße, Schuppenflechte, Glasplatte, Türfalle, Teestube, Drossel, Biosynthese, Briefklammer, Bandbrasse, Bandbreite, Eisscholle, Bauweise, Umhängetasche, Schwester, K-Frage, Abflughalle, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle High German gīge, from Old High German gīga, of unclear origin. Possibly from a Proto-Germanic *gīganą (“to move, wish, desire”) (based on the movement of a violinist's arms), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeyǵʰ-, *ǵʰeygʰ-, an extension of *ǵʰeh₂- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”), though this is semantically dubious. Alternatively an independent onomatopoeic formation.
2. Cognate with Middle English gyge (“to make a creaking sound”), Old French giguer (“to play the fiddle”), English gig, English jig. See: Middle English Nouns 'gyge', English Nouns 'gig', English Nouns 'jig'.

Verbs referencing "Geige"

English Nouns jigger, English Nouns Jew's harp, Icelandic Nouns gígja, Old Norse Nouns gígja, Faroese Nouns gíggja, Irish Nouns gíog.

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