schwanger
- (not-comparable) pregnant (of humans)
- (colloquial, not-comparable) pregnant, gravid (of animals)
- (not-comparable, poetic) full of, laden with
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃvaŋər/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German swanger, from Old High German swangar, from Proto-West Germanic *swangr (“heavy”), further origin unknown. Cognate with Old English swangor, Dutch zwanger (“pregnant”), and Yiddish שוואַנגער (shvanger, “pregnant”); compare also Lithuanian sunkùs (“heavy; difficult”).
gravid
ein Kind erwartend
pattisch
im … Monat
was Kleines unterwegs
Kind bekommen
in Umständen
Kind kriegen
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