Masculine

Gehalt

Meaning

Concepts

(masculine, strong) content, fraction (amount or percentage of some material in a mass)
(archaic, masculine, strong) content (that which is inside, contained)

Frequency

Basel-Landschaft

ghalt

Basel-Landschaft

zapfe

Zürich

ghalt

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Pronounced as (IPA)

[ɡəˈhalt]

From Middle High German gehalt, deverbal from gehalten (“to keep still, retain, preserve, imprison”), itself from halten (“to hold”). The earliest attested sense of the noun is “custody, prison”. In some southern dialects it also means “room, container, closet”. The modern sense develops in the 15th century, at first in the context of coins and metal alloys.

Masculine

Gehalt

Frequency

Dialects

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ɡəˈhalt]

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