Masculine

Gürtel

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) belt (band worn around the waist)
  2. (figuratively, masculine, strong) belt; strip (e.g. of villages around a city, etc.)

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

guurt

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

rieme

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡʏʁtəl/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German gürtel, from Old High German gurtil, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”). By surface analysis, gürten + el.

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