Krebs
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (surname): Creps
Etymology edit
As a German, Alemannic German, and occasionally Danish surname, from the noun Krebs (“crab”).
Proper noun edit
Krebs (countable and uncountable, plural Krebs or Krebses)
- (countable) A surname from German.
- A city in Oklahoma, United States
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German krebz, krebez, krebeze, from Old High German crebiz, krebiz, from Proto-West Germanic *krabit, from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”), see also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”), Dutch kreeft.
The sense “cancer” is a semantic loan from Latin cancer. By metathesis from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab”); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kʁeːps/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /kʁɛps/ (regionally, chiefly western German)
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Noun edit
Krebs m (strong, genitive Krebses, plural Krebse)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Danish: krebs
- → German Low German: Krebs
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kreps
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kreps
- → Saterland Frisian: Krääps
- → Scanian: krævs
- → Yiddish: קרעבס (krebs)
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Further reading edit
Hunsrik edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German krebz, krebez, krebeze, from Old High German crebiz, krebiz, from Proto-West Germanic *krabit.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Krebs m (plural Krebs)