Friedhof
Meaning
cemetery, graveyard
Frequency
Hyphenated as
Fried‧hof
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfʁiːtˌhoːf/
Etymology
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 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.
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Sentences
Beide wurden auf dem Friedhof von Fürstenhagen beigesetzt .
Both were buried in the cemetery of Fürstenhagen.