taub

Sentences
An user
Ohne  Gehörschutz  bei   der   Arbeit   wäre   Klaus   wohl   nach   zwei
2
  Wochen   taub .

Without hearing protection at work, Klaus would probably be deaf after two weeks.

Meaning

  1. deaf (not hearing)
  2. numb
  3. empty

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

daub

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/taʊ̯p/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German toup, toub, from Old High German toub, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”); cognate to English deaf, Swedish döv.

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