Kaiserwetter
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GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
The word Kaiserwetter originally referred to the fact that the weather was usually sunny on the 18th of August, the birthday of the Austrian Emperor (Kaiser) Franz Joseph I (1830–1916).[1][2] In the German Empire, it also referred to the belief that the Emperor Wilhelm II (1859–1941, abdicated 1918) only appeared at open-air events when there was sunny weather.[3]
NounEdit
Kaiserwetter n (genitive Kaiserwetters, plural Kaiserwetter)
SynonymsEdit
DeclensionEdit
Declension of Kaiserwetter
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | das | Kaiserwetter | die | Kaiserwetter |
| genitive | eines | des | Kaiserwetters | der | Kaiserwetter |
| dative | einem | dem | Kaiserwetter | den | Kaiserwettern |
| accusative | ein | das | Kaiserwetter | die | Kaiserwetter |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Kaiserwetter in Duden online
- ^ Hermann Paul, Deutsches Wörterbuch: Bedeutungsgeschichte und Aufbau unseres Wortschatzes, 9th edition, 1992, ISBN 3-484-73057-9, page 516
- ^ Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander, Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon