Unwort
German
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German unwort.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʊnˌvɔʁt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Un‧wort
Noun
Unwort n (strong, genitive Unwortes or Unworts, plural Unwörter or Unworte)
- (linguistics, plural Unworte) inappropriate, offensive neologism
- (linguistics, plural Unwörter) malformed neologism
Declension
Declension of Unwort [neuter, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | das | Unwort | die | Unwörter, Unworte |
genitive | eines | des | Unwortes, Unworts | der | Unwörter, Unworte |
dative | einem | dem | Unwort, Unworte1 | den | Unwörtern, Unworten |
accusative | ein | das | Unwort | die | Unwörter, Unworte |
1Now uncommon, see notes.
Further reading
- “Unwort” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Unwort” in Duden online
- “Unwort”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
- “Unwort” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon