Handy

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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

Synonyme

Mobiltelefon

📱

Funktelefon

Natel

📱

Funkfernsprecher

Gurke

🥒

Handtelefon

Mobilfunktelefon

Natel

📱

tragbares Telefon

Mobil-Phone

Mobiltelephon

Taschentelefon

Ackerschnacker

Funke

Übersetzungen

telefonino

mobile phone

📱

telefono cellulare

cellulare

cell phone

teléfono móvil

móvil

celular

mobieltje

téléphone mobile

📱

telefone celular

📱

κινητό τηλέφωνο

téléphone cellulaire

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).