Feminine

Eichel

Meaning

  1. (feminine) acorn (fruit of an oak tree)
  2. (feminine) acorns (a suit in German and Swiss playing cards)
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, feminine) glans
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, feminine) glans

Synonyms

Glans

Spitze des Penis

Glandes

Frequency

37k
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

aichle

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈaɪ̯çl̩/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German eichel, from Old High German eihhila, from Proto-West Germanic *aikilā. Equivalent to Eiche (“oak”) + -el. The sense “glans penis” is a semantic loan from Latin glāns.

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