Schnapphahn
German
Etymology
From Middle High German snaphan (“mounted highwayman”). Cognate with Dutch snaphaan (“gun, musket, bandit”).[1]
Noun
Schnapphahn m (strong, genitive Schnapphahns, plural Schnapphähne)
- highwayman
Descendants
- → Dutch: snaphaan
- Berbice Creole Dutch: snapan
- → Biak: sinapan
- → Burmese: သေနတ် (senat)
- → Mon: သေနာတ်
- → English: snaphaan, snaphance
- → Indonesian: senapan
- → Malay: senapang
- → West Frisian: snaphoanne (calque)
- → French: chenapan
- → Romanian: șnapan
- → Swedish: snapphane
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Schnapphahn”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891