Masculine

Test

Frequency

B1
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

tescht

Zürich

Zürich

test

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɛst/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from English test, from Old French test (“pot; melting pot, especially one in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“pot”). Compare etymology 2 below. The development from “melting pot” to “procedure of testing metals” also happened natively in earlier German, but the further generalisation is exclusively English.

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