Meaning
- pretty, handsome
- lovely, nice; great
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
Frequency
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
gnufflig
Basel-Landschaft
nätt
Basel-Landschaft
schatzig
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hʏpʃ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German hübesch (“courtly”), from the root of modern Hof (“court”). Cognate with Yiddish היפּש (hipsh). The term was probably borrowed into written Middle High German from Middle Dutch hovesch via West Central German, in which process the Central German -v- was hypercorrectly replaced with -b-. The somewhat younger Middle High German hövesch, in line with hof (“court”), led to modern höfisch (“courtly”). For the semantic and phonetic development of this complex compare also Dutch hoofs (“courtly”) and heus (“polite; genuine”), Ripuarian Central Franconian höösch (“careful, slow”).
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