Noun: sprinkhaan
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | sprinkhaan |
| Pl. | sprinkhanen |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sprinkhaan
silaan,
Subsaharaan,
hijskraan,
warmwaterkraan,
roze pelikaan,
ademhalingsorgaan,
uitgedoofde vulkaan,
zadelsprinkhaan,
Dominicaan,
mohammedaan,
Zimbabwaan,
meridiaan,
celmembraan,
roodrugpelikaan,
baviaan,
wilde zwaan,
Hindoestaan,
oorlogsveteraan,
sprinkhaan,
kabelbaan, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sprinchane, from Old Dutch sprinco (“grasshopper”) + hano (“cock, rooster”). The extension is believed to be due to association with the rooster’s twitching movements. Old Dutch sprinco continues Proto-West Germanic *sprinkō (cognate with Middle High German höusprinke), derived from *springan (“to jump”).
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