Haubitze

German

Etymology

Borrowed during the Hussite Wars (early 15th c.) from Old Czech haufnicě (modern Czech houfnice), derived from húf, hauf (“heap”), a borrowing from Middle High German hūfe. Compare modern German Haufen, modern Czech houf (“flock, crowd”). Early German forms were huffnitze, hauffenicz. The current form with -b- appears around 1700.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /haʊ̯ˈbɪt͡sə/
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Noun

Haubitze f (genitive Haubitze, plural Haubitzen)

  1. (military) howitzer

Declension
Declension of Haubitze [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Haubitze die Haubitzen
genitive einer der Haubitze der Haubitzen
dative einer der Haubitze den Haubitzen
accusative eine die Haubitze die Haubitzen

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  1. Haubitze in: Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), published at dwds.de
  2. “Haubitze” in: Kluge/Seebold, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2002
  3. Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia

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