Buckel

German

Alternative forms

• Puckel (northern Germany, dated)

Etymology

From Middle High German buckel, from Old French boucle, from Latin buccula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊkl̩/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Bu‧ckel

Noun

Buckel m (strong, genitive Buckels, plural Buckel)

1. boss
2. hump
3. (colloquial) back

   Synonym: Rücken

Declension

Declension of Buckel [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Buckel	die	Buckel
genitive	eines	des	Buckels	der	Buckel
dative	einem	dem	Buckel	den	Buckeln
accusative	einen	den	Buckel	die	Buckel

Derived terms

• Buckelpiste
• Buckelschild
• Buckelwal
• bucklig
• Schildbuckel

 

Further reading

• “Buckel” in Duden online
• “Buckel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Buckel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 112