klug
Meaning
intelligent, prudent, wise, smart, clever
Concepts
witty
cautelous
Synonyms
taktvoll
wohlweislich
welterfahren
mucker
ausgebufft
in weiser Voraussicht
geläutert
lebensklug
bedachtsam
denkfähig
einsichtsvoll
füglich
gedankenvoll
klughaft
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kluːk/
Etymology
From Middle High German kluoc, which was borrowed via the Lower Rhineland from Middle Low German klōk and Middle Dutch cloec, from Proto-Germanic *klōkaz. Compare Old Norse klókr, and dialectal Dutch kloek. In Upper German dialects, the final [k]-sound after a long vowel was naturally interpreted as underlying /ɡ/. This form then also spread back northwards, though some northern Central German dialects (like Ripuarian) retained /k/, as did Low German.
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