Gerte

German

Etymology

From Middle High German gerte, Old High German gartia (“rod, twig, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀdi (“staff, rod, twig”).

Cognates:
Cognate with English yard (“unit of measurement”), Saterland Frisian Jädde (“crop, yard”), Dutch garde (“whisk, stick, yard”). Also related to Old Norse gaddr, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌶𐌳𐍃 (gazds), Latin hasta (“spear”).[1]

Pronunciation
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Noun

Gerte f (genitive Gerte, plural Gerten)

  1. (horse-riding) crop (a whip without a lash)

Declension
Declension of Gerte [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Gerte die Gerten
genitive einer der Gerte der Gerten
dative einer der Gerte den Gerten
accusative eine die Gerte die Gerten

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