Lawine

See also: lawine

German

Etymology

From Alemannic German Lauwin, from Middle High German lowin, *lawene (compare Bavarian Laun, Lan), from Old High German lowin, lewina, from Late Latin labina, from Latin lābī (“to glide”). All mentioned German forms are to be stressed on the first syllable; the stress pattern in modern standard German is a spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /laˈviːnə/
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Rhymes: -iːnə

Noun

Lawine f (genitive Lawine, plural Lawinen)

avalanche

Declension

Declension of Lawine

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Lawine	die	Lawinen
genitive	einer	der	Lawine	der	Lawinen
dative	einer	der	Lawine	den	Lawinen
accusative	eine	die	Lawine	die	Lawinen

Descendants

Bulgarian: лавина (lavina)
Czech: lavina
Danish: lavine
Dutch: lawine
English: lauwine, lawine
Estonian: laviin
Italian: lavina
Hungarian: lavina
Latvian: lavīna
Lithuanian: lavina

Luxembourgish: Lawin
Norwegian: lavine
Polish: lawina
Russian: лави́на (lavína)
Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лавина
- Roman: lavina
Slovene: lavína
Swedish: lavin