Wiktionary

Speiche

German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German speiche, Old High German speihha, ultimately from the root of spitz (“spike”).

Cognate with Old Norse spik (“spike, sprig”), Old Saxon spēca (“spoke”), Old English spāce, Dutch speek, English spoke.[1]

Pronunciation edit

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  • Rhymes: -aɪ̯çə

Noun edit

Speiche f (genitive Speiche, plural Speichen)

  1. spoke
  2. (anatomy) radius

Declension edit

Declension of Speiche [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Speiche die Speichen
genitive einer der Speiche der Speichen
dative einer der Speiche den Speichen
accusative eine die Speiche die Speichen

References edit

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Speiche”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading edit

  • “Speiche” in Duden online
  • “Speiche” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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