Ehre
See also: ehre
German
Alternative forms
- Ehr, Ehr' (now poetic or dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle High German ēre, from Old High German ēra (“honour, fame, sense of honour”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.
Cognate with Old Norse eir (“pardon, gentleness”), Old Saxon ēra (“honour, protection, pardon, gift”), Old English ār (“honour, help, pardon”), and Latin aes-tumare (“to acknowledge, value”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeːʁə/
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Noun
Ehre f (genitive Ehre, plural Ehren)
- honour; honor
- credit
- kudos
Declension
Declension of Ehre [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Ehre | die | Ehren |
| genitive | einer | der | Ehre | der | Ehren |
| dative | einer | der | Ehre | den | Ehren |
| accusative | eine | die | Ehre | die | Ehren |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- ehrbar
- Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt
- ehrenamtlich
- Ehrenbild
- Ehrendoktor
- Ehrengast
- ehrenhaft
- Ehrenmann
- Ehrenmord
- ehrenvoll
- Ehrenwort
- Ehrgeiz
- ehrgeizig
- ehrlich
- ehrsam
- ehrwürdig
- verehren
- viel Feind, viel Ehr
- zu Ehren von (“in honor of”)
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Ehre”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Further reading
- “Ehre” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Ehre” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Ehre” in Duden online
Ehre on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- “Ehre” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Pennsylvania German
Noun
Ehre
- plural of Ehr