Achsenzeit

== German == === Etymology === From Achse (“axis”) +‎ -n- +‎ Zeit (“age”), coined by German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) in his 1949 book Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte (“The Origin and Goal of History”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈaksn̩ˌt͡saɪ̯t/ === Proper noun === Achsenzeit f (proper noun, genitive Achsenzeit) Axial Age (c. 800–200 BCE) === Further reading === Achsenzeit on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de “Achsenzeit”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German)