Gämse
German
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German gemeze, from Old High German gamiza (form only attested in a 13th-century manuscript). The variant Gams f is from Middle High German gamz m, f, n, from Old High German *gamuz or *gamaz (probably a masculine or neuter). These forms can be derived from Vulgar Latin *camōcius m, *camōcia f, which also underlie most of the dialectal Romance forms in Switzerland and northern Italy, probably from an extinct Alpine language (such as Raetic or Ancient Ligurian), eventually perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”), although this is speculative. A more western form of the same word is attested in Late Latin camōx (5th century).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editGämse f (genitive Gämse, plural Gämsen)
Usage notes
edit- The spelling Gämse has been the prescribed spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform). In the affected areas, the previous spelling (Gemse) is now less common, and may be regarded as a misspelling.
Declension
editDeclension of Gämse [feminine]
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Danish: gemse
- → Icelandic: gemsa
- → Dutch: gems
- → West Frisian: gems
- → Norwegian: gemse
- → Slovene: gams
- → Swedish: gems
References
edit- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading
edit- “Gämse” in Duden online
- “Gämse” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Gämse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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