Kerf
See also: kerf
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Low German Kerbe, from Middle Low German kerf, kerve, probably related to Old Saxon kervan (“to cut”).
Synonymous with Kerbtier (1815 by Lorenz Oken); cf. German Low German half (“half”) and Dutch half (“half”) with High German halb (“half”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Kerf m (strong, genitive Kerfes or Kerfs, plural Kerfe)
Declension edit
Declension of Kerf [masculine, strong]
Further reading edit
- “Kerf” in Duden online
- “Kerf” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kerf”, 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 366