Neuter
Handy
(Englisch)
mobile phone, mobile, cell phone, phone (portable, wireless telephone)
Frequenz
Dialekte
Zürich
handy
Aargau
chnoche
Appenzell Innerrhoden
handy
Appenzell Außerrhoden
handy
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).
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