Masculine
Haufen
Meaning
- (masculine,strong) heap, hive, pile
- (masculine,strong) crowd, lot, group
- (euphemistic,masculine,strong) feces, turd
Concepts
loads of
mass of people
one lump
one group
a lot of
into one
Synonyms
Menschenauflauf
Klumpatsch
sehr viel
Unmasse
Zusammenballung
Verwachsung
Aggregation
große Anzahl
ganze Menge
Kumulation
Aufschüttung
Fäkalie
Haufwerk
Kumulierung
Chrotta
Zuschauermenge
lustiger Verein
bunte Truppe
Hochkippe
Scheißbolle
Erbmasse
Fäkalien
Gewühle
Menschenmasse
Frequency
Dialects
Fribourg
huufe
Basel-Landschaft
huffe
Basel-Landschaft
schiibel
Basel-Landschaft
graaglede
Basel-Landschaft
stogg
Basel-Landschaft
wiisch
Basel-Landschaft
schoche
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Hyphenated as
Hau‧fen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhaʊ̯fən/
Etymology
In summary
From a merger of Middle High German hūfe (hūf), houf (houfe), from Old High German hūfo (more southern) and houf (more northern), from Proto-Germanic *hūpô and its ablaut variant *haupaz, respectively. With the former is cognate Middle Low German hūpe, with the latter Dutch hoop, English heap. Already in Middle High German the two forms began to influence each other such that the originally weak hūfe developed the strong byform hūf, while the originally strong houf developed the weak byform houfe. In Modern Standard German the vowels -ū- and -ou- regularly coalesced into -au-, which completed the merger. The strong stem is preserved in zuhauf.
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