Regen
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German regen, from Old High German regan, from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regną. Cognate with Yiddish רעגן (regn), Dutch regen, English rain, Danish regn.
Noun edit
Regen m (strong, genitive Regens, plural Regen)
Usage notes edit
The plural form is seldom used.
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Regen” in Duden online
- “Regen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Regen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Regen”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Etymology 2 edit
The river name is the oldest, attested in Latin sources as Regana, Reganum, or Reganus, of unknown further ancestry.
Proper noun edit
der Regen m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Regens)
- A river in Bavaria
Derived terms edit
Proper noun edit
Regen n (proper noun, genitive Regens or (optionally with an article) Regen)
- A town and rural district of Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
Derived terms edit
Proper noun edit
Regen m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Regens or (with an article) Regen, feminine genitive Regen, plural Regens or Regen)
- a surname transferred from the place name
See also edit
- Sächsisch Regen, historical German name of the Romanian city of Reghin.
German Low German edit
Noun edit
Regen m (no plural)
- Alternative form of Ręgen (rain)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse Reginn, likely related to regin (“the gods, the powers”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Regen m