spiegel

See also: Spiegel

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch spiegel, from Old Dutch spēgal, from Proto-West Germanic *spēgl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.ɣəl/

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• Hyphenation: spie‧gel
• Rhymes: -iɣəl

Noun

spiegel m (plural spiegels, diminutive spiegeltje n)

1. mirror

   Spiegeltje, spiegeltje aan de wand, wie is de schoonste van het land?

   Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? (lit. “of the land”)

2. stern of a ship
3. level (amount of a substance)

Derived terms

• autospiegel
• boomspiegel
• hormoonspiegel
• spiegelbeeld
• spiegelei
• spiegelglad
• spiegelschip
• zeespiegel
• zijspiegel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: spieël
  • → Xhosa: isipili
• Limburgish: spegel
• Negerhollands: spiegel
• Sranan Tongo: spikri, spigri
  • Aukan: sipikii
    • Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: spikri
  • Saramaccan: sipéi, sipé
• → Kari'na: supukili
• → Papiamentu: spiel
• → Warao: mu-sebihi

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

spiegel

1. inflection of spiegeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German spiegal, from Proto-West Germanic *spēgl.

Noun

spiegel m

1. mirror

Descendants

• Bavarian: Spiagl
• German: Spiegel
  • → Esperanto: spegulo
  • → Kashubian: szpédżel
  • → Romansch: spievel, spieghel, spejel
  • → Russian: с̌пи́гел (špígel)
• Hunsrik: Spieghel
• Luxembourgish: spiegel
• Yiddish: שפּיגל (shpigl)