Weibel

English

Etymology

German surname, from the noun Weibel (“court usher, bailiff”).

Proper noun

Weibel (plural Weibels)

  1. A surname.

Statistics
  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Weibel is the 15978th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1817 individuals. Weibel is most common among White (95.6%) individuals.

Anagrams

German
A Standesweibel heading the parade, canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland.

Etymology

From Middle High German weibel, Old High German weibil (“beadle, apparitor”), derivative of weibōn (“to move to and fro”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *waibijan (“to tremble, move back and forth”).[1]

Noun

Weibel m (strong, genitive Weibels, plural Weibel, feminine Weibelin)

  1. (archaic outside Switzerland) usher

Declension
Declension of Weibel [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Weibel die Weibel
genitive eines des Weibels der Weibel
dative einem dem Weibel den Weibeln
accusative einen den Weibel die Weibel

Derived terms

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (2011) “Weibel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 25th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Further reading
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