Gerte
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German gerte, Old High German gartia (“rod, twig, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀdi (“staff, rod, twig”).
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Noun edit
Gerte f (genitive Gerte, plural Gerten)
- (horse-riding) crop (a whip without a lash)
Declension edit
Declension of Gerte [feminine]
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Gerte”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.