Eingeweide

German

Alternative forms

Ingeweide (obsolete)
Geweide (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German geweide or ingeweide, mostly attributed to hunter's idiom, the guts being thrown to the dogs as their food, and then a derivation from Weide (“food, pasture”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“chase, persecute”).

Others have suggested a connection to the tree name Weide (“willow”), in the sense of “something wound up, convoluted”, and then from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (“to turn, rotate”). Compare Latin viscera (“internal organs, entrails”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯nɡəvaɪ̯də/
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Noun

Eingeweide n (strong, genitive Eingeweides, plural Eingeweide)

(mostly plural) guts, internal organs
Synonyms: Innereien pl; Gedärm n, Gedärme pl
- 1984, Die Ärzte, Schlaflied, on the album Debil:
  [Das Monster] beißt Dir in den Hals und trinkt Dein Blut. Ohne Blut bist Du bleich wie Kreide; dann frißt es Deine Eingeweide.
  [The Monster] bites you in the neck and drinks your blood. Without blood you are as pale as chalk; and then it eats your internal organs.

Declension

Declension of Eingeweide [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Eingeweide	die	Eingeweide
genitive	eines	des	Eingeweides	der	Eingeweide
dative	einem	dem	Eingeweide	den	Eingeweiden
accusative	ein	das	Eingeweide	die	Eingeweide