Speiche
German
Etymology
From Middle High German speiche, Old High German speihha, ultimately from the root of spitz (“spike”).
Cognate with Old Norse spik (“spike, sprig”), Old Saxon spēca (“spoke”), Old English spāce, Dutch speek, English spoke.[1]
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɪ̯çə
Noun
Speiche f (genitive Speiche, plural Speichen)
- spoke
- (anatomy) radius
Declension
Declension of Speiche [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Speiche | die | Speichen |
| genitive | einer | der | Speiche | der | Speichen |
| dative | einer | der | Speiche | den | Speichen |
| accusative | eine | die | Speiche | die | Speichen |
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Speiche”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Further reading
- “Speiche” in Duden online
- “Speiche” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache