Freund Hein

== German == === Alternative forms === Freund Hain, Bruder Hein === Etymology === Literally, “friend Hein”. Hein was originally a euphemism for the devil (compare English Old Nick); the open compound, sometimes falsely attributed to Matthias Claudius who used it in an edition of Der Wandsbecker Bothe in 1775, can be attested as far back as 1650. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /frɔʏ̯nt haɪ̯n/ === Noun === Freund Hein m (strong, genitive Freundes Hein, no plural) (literary, poetic, euphemistic, allegorical, personification) Death Synonyms: Gevatter Tod, Schlafes Bruder ==== Declension ==== === References === === Further reading === Freund Hein on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de “Hein” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “Hein” in Duden online Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “Hein”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 302 “Freund Hein” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon