Hase
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
German surname, from Middle High German and Middle Low German hase (“hare”), from Old High German haso.
Proper noun edit
Hase
- A surname.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hase”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 138.
Etymology 2 edit
German Hase, from earlier Haase. Not from the noun meaning “hare”, but related to its ultimate source: from Old Saxon hasu, from Proto-West Germanic *hasu (“grey”).
Proper noun edit
Hase
- A river in Lower Saxony, Germany
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German has(e), from Old High German haso, from Proto-West Germanic *hasō, from Proto-Germanic *hasô, from an Indo-European root originally meaning grey.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Hase m (weak, genitive Hasen, plural Hasen, diminutive Häschen n or Häslein n, feminine (for the animal) Häsin)
- hare (animal of either sex)
- (astronomy) the constellation Lepus
Usage notes edit
- While English speakers tend to mistakenly use the word “rabbit” for hares, the German tendency is the reverse: Hase is sometimes mistakenly used instead of Kaninchen, and it tends to be the preferred word whenever the distinction is irrelevant or impossible to tell (for example, a bunny girl is a Häschen in German and the Easter bunny is called Osterhase).
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Descendants edit
- → French: hase
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
German and Jewish surname, from the noun meaning "hare" (see Etymology 1 above). Occasionally calqued from Lower Sorbian Zajac, of the same meaning.
Proper noun edit
Hase m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hases or (with an article) Hase, feminine genitive Hase, plural Hases or Hase)
- a surname
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Hase” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Hase” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Hase” in Duden online
- Hase on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
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