Fenster
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German venster, from Old High German fenstar, from Proto-West Germanic *fenestr (“window”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Fenster n (strong, genitive Fensters, plural Fenster, diminutive Fensterchen n or Fensterlein n)
- window
- sich weit aus dem Fenster lehnen. ― to go out on a limb.
- Sie schaute auf dem Fenster. ― She looked out the window
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 9:
- So dunkel und schauerlich die Gruft aussah, wenn man durch die blinden, bestaubten Scheibchen der kleinen Fenster hineinblickte, so hell und freundlich war oben die Kirche.
- Just as dark and eerie the crypt looked like, if one looked in it through the cloudy, dusted little panes of the small windows, as bright and friendly was the church above.
- (figuratively) time frame
- Synonym: Zeitfenster
Declension edit
Declension of Fenster [neuter, strong]
Hyponyms edit
- Autofenster
- Balkonfenster
- Bogenfenster
- Coupéfenster
- Dachfenster
- Dialogfenster
- Dreiecksfenster
- französisches Fenster
- Giebelfenster
- Hochschiebefenster
- Kapellenfenster
- Kellerfenster
- Kippfenster
- Kirchenfenster
- Klofenster
- Koppelfenster
- Küchenfenster
- Kunststofffenster
- Lüftungsfenster
- Maßwerkfenster
- Radfenster
- Rautenfenster
- Rundbogenfenster
- Schaufenster
- Schiebefenster
- Schlafzimmerfenster
- Segmentbogenfenster
- Seitenfenster
- Spitzbogenfenster
- Sprossenfenster
- Torfenster
- Türfenster
- Verandafenster
- Vertikalschiebefenster
- Wohnzimmerfenster
- Zeitfenster
- Zimmerfenster
- Zugfenster
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Hunsrik edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Central Franconian [Term?], from Middle High German venster, from Old High German fenstar, from Proto-West Germanic *fenestr, a borrowing from Latin fenestra.[1]
Cognate with German Fenster and Luxembourgish Fënster.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Fenster n (nominative plural Fenster or Fenstre)
- pane of glass, windowpane
- Ich mache die Fenster sauber.
- I clean the window panes.
Declension edit
Declension of Fenster
References edit
- ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Fenster”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary][1] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 48