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Noun meanings and gender [1] [5] [note 2] Masculine (der) Male human beings and animals. but, for example: die männliche Giraffe (feminine meaning the male giraffe) Seasons, months and days of the week. [B 1] but: die Mittwoche (dated form for der Mittwoch) Compass points, words about winds and types of weather. but: die Windböe; das Wetter ...
The Americans and Canadians referred to Germans, especially German soldiers, as Heinies, from a diminutive of the common German male proper name Heinrich. [11] For example, in the film 1941 the Slim Pickens character calls a German officer "Mr Hynee Kraut!". Heinie is also a colloquial term for buttocks, in use since the 1920s. [12]
ehrwürdig for (ex-)minor clergy below the rank of subdeacon, male religious not clerics, seminarians and female religious not abbesses ("the Reverend", literally something like "the Honour Worthy"). Whether Monsignors of the first degree (that is, Chaplains of His Holiness) are hochwürdigst or hochwürdig is a borderline case.
Wæpned also meant "male", and was used to qualify "man": wæpnedmann (variant wepman, "male person"). There was also the term wæpenwifestre, meaning either an armed woman, or a woman with a penis. [7] These terms were not restricted to adults; Old English also used wæpnedcild and wifcild, literally "male-child" and "female-child".
A. Abraham (given name) Achim (name) Adalbert; Adel (name) Adelbert; Adolf; Adrian; Alan (given name) Albert (given name) Albrecht; Alexander; Alfred (name) Alois
Hans is a Germanic male given name in Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, German, Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish-speaking populations.It was originally short for Johannes (), [2] but is now also recognized as a name in its own right for official purposes.
It may also correspond to some other difference in the meaning of the word. For example, the German word See meaning "lake" is masculine, whereas the identical word meaning "sea" is feminine. The meanings of the Norwegian noun ting have diverged further: masculine en ting is "a thing", whereas neuter et ting is "an assembly".
Herman is a masculine given name, from an ancient Germanic name consisting of the elements harja-"army" and mann-"man". Hermine is the feminine form of Herman. [1] It is first recorded in the 8th century, in the forms Hariman, Heriman, Hairman, Herman.