"Duft" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /dʊft/ Audio: De-Duft.ogg
Rhymes: -ʊft Etymology: From Middle High German tuft, from Old High German duft, thuft, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”); cognate with Danish duft (“fragrance”) and possibly Ancient Greek τῠφλός (tuphlós, “blind”). The Middle High German t- is an irregular hardening (compare tausend) that was undone in modern German. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|tuft}} Middle High German tuft, {{inh|de|goh|duft}} Old High German duft, {{m|goh|thuft}} thuft, {{der|de|ine-pro|*dʰewbʰ-||to whisk, be obscured}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”), {{cog|da|duft||fragrance}} Danish duft (“fragrance”), {{cog|grc|τῠφλός||blind}} Ancient Greek τῠφλός (tuphlós, “blind”), {{m|gmh|tausend}} tausend Head templates: {{de-noun|m,(e)s,^e|dim=^chen}} Duft m (strong, genitive Duftes or Dufts, plural Düfte, diminutive Düftchen n) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,(e)s,^e}} Forms: Duftes [genitive], Dufts [genitive], Düfte [plural], Düftchen [diminutive, neuter], strong [table-tags], Duft [nominative, singular], Düfte [definite, nominative, plural], Duftes [genitive, singular], Dufts [genitive, singular], Düfte [definite, genitive, plural], Duft [dative, singular], Dufte [dative, singular], Düften [dative, definite, plural], Duft [accusative, singular], Düfte [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. smell, scent Tags: masculine, strong Derived forms: duften, duftig
    Sense id: en-Duft-de-noun-ftbtKXVP Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Duft meaning in German (3.3kB)

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