Matte
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German matte, from Old High German matta, from Late Latin matta, from a Semitic language.
Noun edit
Matte f (genitive Matte, plural Matten)
Declension edit
Declension of Matte [feminine]
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle High German mate, matte, from Old High German *mata (attested in matoscrec (“grasshopper”)), from Proto-Germanic *maþwō or *madwō. Cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German māde. Also related to English meadow (from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō).
Noun edit
Matte f (genitive Matte, plural Matten)
- (Switzerland or dialectal) meadow
- Synonym: Wiese
- 1804, Friedrich Schiller, “Erster Aufzug”, in Wilhelm Tell:
- Hirte: Ihr Matten lebt wohl, / Ihr sonnigen Weiden! / Der Senne muß scheiden, / Der Sommer ist hin.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1983, “Die Sennerin vom Königssee”, in Joachim Gaiser (lyrics), Ulrich Herter (music), Vom Königssee in ferne Länder, performed by Kiz:
- Hoch in den Bergen überm Königsee / da haust die Maid und hütet Vieh im frischen Klee / hoch auf den sonnigen Matten / Sie ist so fromm und dennoch ungehemmt
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
Declension of Matte [feminine]
Further reading edit
- Matte on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Matte” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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Matte m