Tenne
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German tenne, from Old High German tenni, from Proto-Germanic *danjō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰén- (“surface (of hand or land)”).[1] Cognate with English den.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Tenne f (genitive Tenne, plural Tennen)
- threshing-floor
- (by extension) a barn attached to a farmhouse, which is used (or was originally used) for threshing and/or keeping fodder
Usage notes edit
- In the extended sense of “barn”, the word is often still used with the preposition auf (“on”) rather than in. (Compare the same in Dachboden.)
Declension edit
Declension of Tenne [feminine]
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 249, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 249