Friedhof

Meaning

cemetery, graveyard

Concepts

cemetery

graveyard

churchyard

burial ground

burial place

God’s acre

Aoyama

memorial park

grave

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Kyoto

tomb

Synonyms

Kirchhof

Gottesacker

Begräbnisplatz

Leichenhof

Totenacker

Gräberfeld

Begräbnisstätte

Entsorgungsplatz

Endlagerstätte

feierlich

Grab

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Grabstätte

üblich

Parkfriedhof

Grabfeld

Translations

cimitero

cementerio

cimetière

camposanto

begraafplaats

cemitério

kerkhof

mezarlık

νεκροταφείο

campo santo

cementiri

κοιμητήριο

مقبرة

coemeterium

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

gottsagger

Basel-Landschaft

kiirchhoof

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfʁiːtˌhoːf/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: vrīthof

Inherited from Old High German: frīthof

Cognate with Dutch: vrijthof

In summary

From Middle High German vrīthof, from Old High German frīthof, derived from frīten (“to enclose”) + Hof (“yard”). In Early Modern German, the word came to be associated with the distantly related Frieden (“peace”), probably at first through interaction of diphthongising and non-diphthongising dialects, but then leading to semantic remotivation as “place of final peace”. Cognate with archaic Dutch vrijthof.

Sentences

Früher haben wir noch am Friedhof gechillt und uns dabei unendlich cool gefühlt .

We used to chill at the cemetery and feel infinitely cool.

Er wurde auf dem Friedhof in Altenburg beigesetzt .

He was buried in the cemetery in Altenburg.

Seine letzte Ruhestätte fand er auf dem Klagenfurter Friedhof Annabichl.

He found his final resting place in the Annabichl cemetery in Klagenfurt.