Rodel

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Ro‧del

Proper noun

Rodel

1. a male given name

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Bavarian [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁoːdl/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Rodel f or m (mixed or strong, genitive Rodel or Rodels, plural Rodeln or Rodel)

1. (Austria, Bavaria) sled

   Synonyms: Schlitten, Rodelschlitten

2. (Austria, colloquial) short for Sackrodel: hand truck

Usage notes

• The masculine gender is used predominantly in Bavaria, and the feminine gender is used predominantly in Austria.

Declension

Declension of Rodel [feminine // masculine, mixed // strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine, ein	die, der	Rodel	die	Rodeln, Rodel
genitive	einer, eines	der, des	Rodel, Rodels	der	Rodeln, Rodel
dative	einer, einem	der, dem	Rodel	den	Rodeln
accusative	eine, einen	die, den	Rodel	die	Rodeln, Rodel

Related terms

• rodeln

Descendants

• → Swedish: rodel

Further reading

• “Rodel” in Duden online
• “Rodel”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Rodel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Rodel” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.