Weibel
English
editEtymology
editFrom the German surname, from the noun Weibel (“court usher, bailiff”).
Proper noun
editWeibel (plural Weibels)
- A surname.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Weibel is the 15978th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1817 individuals. Weibel is most common among White (95.6%) individuals.
Anagrams
editGerman
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German weibel, Old High German weibil (“beadle, apparitor”), derivative of weibōn (“to move to and fro”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *waibijan (“to tremble, move back and forth”).[1]
Noun
editWeibel m (strong, genitive Weibels, plural Weibel, feminine Weibelin)
- (archaic outside Switzerland) usher
Declension
editDeclension of Weibel [masculine, strong]
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Friedrich Kluge (2011) “Weibel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 25th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Further reading
edit- “Weibel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Weibel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Weibel (Amtsdiener) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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