"Dachshund" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdaks.hʊnt/ Audio: De-Dachshund.ogg [Germany, Berlin]
Etymology: 15th c., from Dachs (“badger”) + Hund (“dog”), because the breed was used for hunting badgers. Etymology templates: {{ety|de|:af|Dachs|Hund}} [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "dog", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*ḱwṓ", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*hundaz", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*hund", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "hunt", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle High German", "term" : "hunt", "lang" : "gmh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "Hund", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "de" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "Dachshund", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "de" }" data-lang="de" data-title="Dachshund">, {{compound|de|Dachs|Hund|t1=badger|t2=dog}} Dachs (“badger”) + Hund (“dog”) Head templates: {{de-noun|m,(e)s|f=^in}} Dachshund m (strong, genitive Dachshundes or Dachshunds, plural Dachshunde, feminine Dachshündin) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,(e)s}} Forms: Dachshundes [genitive], Dachshunds [genitive], Dachshunde [plural], Dachshündin [feminine], strong [table-tags], Dachshund [nominative, singular], Dachshunde [definite, nominative, plural], Dachshundes [genitive, singular], Dachshunds [genitive, singular], Dachshunde [definite, genitive, plural], Dachshund [dative, singular], Dachshunde [dative, singular], Dachshunden [dative, definite, plural], Dachshund [accusative, singular], Dachshunde [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (archaic) dachshund (sausage dog, wiener dog) Tags: archaic, masculine, strong Synonyms: Dackel (english: usual), Teckel (english: specialist) Derived forms: Dackel Related terms: dackeln, Dachswelpe
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  2. (archaic, loosely) a similar-looking dog, e.g. a basset hound Tags: archaic, broadly, masculine, strong Related terms (basset hound): Basset Hound
    Sense id: en-Dachshund-de-noun-csm8KjyT Categories (other): Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with entries, Pages with etymon, German entries referencing missing etymons, German entries with etymon, German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 24 36 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 38 30 32 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 22 39 39 Disambiguation of German entries referencing missing etymons: 48 52 Disambiguation of German entries with etymon: 50 50 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'basset hound': 17 83

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.