Ehre

See also: ehre

German

Alternative forms

Ehr, Ehr' (now poetic or dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle High German ēre, from Old High German ēra (“honour, fame, sense of honour”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Cognate with Old Norse eir (“pardon, gentleness”), Old Saxon ēra (“honour, protection, pardon, gift”), Old English ār (“honour, help, pardon”), and Latin aes-tumare (“to acknowledge, value”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈeːʁə/
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Noun

Ehre f (genitive Ehre, plural Ehren)

Declension

Declension of Ehre [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Ehre	die	Ehren
genitive	einer	der	Ehre	der	Ehren
dative	einer	der	Ehre	den	Ehren
accusative	eine	die	Ehre	die	Ehren

Derived terms

Derived terms

References

Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Ehre”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

“Ehre” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Ehre” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Ehre” in Duden online
Ehre on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
“Ehre” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Ehre

plural of Ehr

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