Mauke
German edit
Etymology edit
15th century, from Middle Low German mūke, from Proto-West Germanic *mūku. Of unknown further origin; perhaps from Proto-Germanic *mūkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mewg- (“slimy, slippery”).[1][2]
Cognate with Middle High German mūche (whence dialectal German Mauche) and Middle Dutch muyck (whence Dutch muik, now usually mok). The -au- in Mauke either through conflation with the inherited form or simply through artificial adaptation to the Standard German vowel system.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Mauke f (genitive Mauke, plural Mauken)
- mud fever (infection of horses′ lower limbs)
- (colloquial, regional, chiefly plural, derogatory) foot
- Nimm deine Mauken vom Tisch!
- Get your feet off the table!
Declension edit
Declension of Mauke [feminine]
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Mauke”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “744-45”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 744-45