Meaning

Frequency

A1
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

gnueg

Graubünden

Graubünden

gnuag

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

gnueg

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

gnue

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

gnueg

Graubünden

Graubünden

gnueg

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡəˈnuːk/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German genuoc, from Old High German ginuog, from Proto-West Germanic *ganōg, from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz. Cognate with Dutch genoeg, Low German (ge)noog, English enough, West Frisian genôch, Danish nok, Swedish nog. Further Indo-European cognates: Latin nancīscor (“to get, to obtain”), Slovene nesti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to satisfy”).

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