Handy

Mane

Têgeh

Hevwate

Werger

Notes

Bilêvkirina xwe pratîk bike

Extra tools

(Îngilîzî)

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

Pircarînî

Zürich (de)

handy

Aargau (de)

chnoche

Appenzell Innerrhoden (de)

handy

Appenzell Ausserrhoden (de)

handy

Zürich (de)

telephon

Agahiyên ji hêla: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ˈhɛndi/

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).