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Name

See also: Appendix:Variations of "name"

Alemannic German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    From Middle High German name, from Old High German namo, from Proto-West Germanic *namō. Cognate with German Name, Dutch naam, Low German Naam, Yiddish נאָמען (nomen), English name, West Frisian namme, Danish navn, Swedish namn, Icelandic nafn.

    Noun

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    Name m (plural Näme, diminutive Nämeli n)

    1. name
    2. (Nämeli) name tag

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    German

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From Middle High German name, from Old High German namo, from Proto-West Germanic *namō. Cognate with Dutch naam, Low German Naam, Alemannic German Name, Yiddish נאָמען (nomen), English name, West Frisian namme, Danish navn, Swedish namn.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    Name m (weak, genitive Namens, plural Namen)

    1. name (forename, Christian name, given name)
    2. name (surname, family name)
    3. name (full name)
    4. (grammar, in compounds) noun, examples include Eigenname (proper noun), Sammelname (collective noun) and Gattungsname (appellative or common noun). Note: Compounds which aren't hyponyms of substantive are rare and obsolete, like Hauptname or Dingname (substantive noun), Beiname (adjective noun), Fürname (pronoun).

    Declension

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    Declension of Name [masculine, weak]
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein der Name die Namen
    genitive eines des Namens der Namen
    dative einem dem Namen den Namen
    accusative einen den Namen die Namen

    Derived terms

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    Further reading

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    • “Name”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)
    • “Name” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
    •   Name on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
    • “Name” in Duden online

    Anagrams

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