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Handy

(Englisch)

mobile phone, mobile, cell phone, phone (portable, wireless telephone)

Frequenz

A2
Dialekte

Zürich

Zürich

handy

Aargau

Aargau

chnoche

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

handy

Appenzell Außerrhoden

Appenzell Außerrhoden

handy

Zürich

Zürich

telephon

Daten bereitgestellt von: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ˈhɛndi/
Etymologie (Englisch)

Some sources claim the existence of an early English preform. Perhaps from English handie-talkie, apparently used as a Motorola product name based on walkie-talkie. Or perhaps derived from English handheld transceiver, coined by CB radio users, later informally applied to the first mobile phones, and soon found in product names. Others assert the use for a phone is exclusively German, possibly as a short form of Handfunktelefon, as which it was marketed by firms like Bosch and Hagenuk. Thus equivalent to an anglicisation of Hand (“hand”) + -i (diminutive suffix).

Related words

Funktelefon

Funkfernsprecher

Handtelefon

Mobilfunktelefon

tragbares Telefon

Mobil-Phone

Mobiltelephon

Taschentelefon

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