Jinûmêr

Gerücht

Mane

Têgeh

(Îngilîzî)

rumor / rumour

Pircarînî

Basel-Landschaft (de)

muem

Agahiyên ji hêla: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ɡəˈʁʏçt/

Ji Middle High German mîras hatiye girtin

Hevwate bi Middle High German

Hevwate bi Old High German

Hevwate bi Old Saxon

Hevwate bi holendî

In summary

Inherited from Middle High German gerüchte (Central German), borrowed from Middle Low German geruchte, gerüchte. This northern form replaced earlier Middle High German geruofte, gerüefte, from Old High German geruofti. The noun ultimately pertains to the verb rufen (“to call”) (Old High German ruofan, Old Saxon hrōpan). The Low German form is based on the shift -ft- → -cht- (cf. Nichte); the same in Dutch gerucht. Popular etymology later associated the word with riechen (“to smell”).