Feminine
Fahne
Meaning
- (feminine) flag, banner (any cloth or fabric used as a symbol)
- (feminine,figuratively) idea, ideal
- (colloquial,feminine) the noticeable smell of alcohol on one's breath
- (feminine) galley proof
- (feminine) vane (flattened, web-like part of a feather)
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Hyphenated as
Fah‧ne
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfaːnə/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German van(e) m, from Old High German fano, from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *pān- (“fabric”). The shift to the feminine gender began in cognate Middle Low German vāne and, through Central German, established itself in the written language by the end of the 17th century.
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