Handel

From a German surname.

Handel

1. A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.
   • 2014 April 17, Tom Service, “Handel's Messiah: the sound of our better selves”, in The Guardian:

     Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its first performance in 1742.

• Dahlen, handle

First attested as haenle in 1326. Compound of haan (“rooster, black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)”) and lo (“light forest”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑn.dəl/

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• Hyphenation: Han‧del
• Rhymes: -ɑndəl
• Homophone: handel

Handel n

1. A village in Gemert-Bakel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

   Synonym: Bergkneuterrijk (Carnival nickname)

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From handeln, later specialized to its current meaning.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhandl̩/

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Handel m (strong, genitive Handels, plural Händel)

1. deal
2. trade, trading

• handeln
• handel
• Handlung

• Handelsabkommen, Handelsblatt, Handelsdefizit, Handelsembargo, Handelsform, Handelshaus, Handelskammer, Handelskrieg, Handelsmarke, Handelsname, Handelsplatz, Handelssprache, Handelsvertrag, Handelsweg

• “Handel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Handel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Handel (Markt, Absatz, Geschäft)” in Duden online
• “Handel (Zwist, Hader, Differenz)” in Duden online