Geschmack

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German smac, from Old High German gismac, gismah, smac from Proto-West Germanic *smakku. Cognate with Dutch smaak, English smack, smatch, Swedish smak, Danish smag, Yiddish געשמאַק (geshmak). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡəˈʃmak/ Rhymes: -ak === Noun === Geschmack m (strong, genitive Geschmacks or Geschmackes, plural Geschmäcker or (now rare) Geschmäcke) taste flavour (Switzerland) smell, odor ==== Usage notes ==== Some dictionaries still label the plural Geschmäcker as colloquial. In practice, however, this form has been predominant in all registers since the 1980s, while the older form Geschmäcke has become quite rare. ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== schmackhaft schmecken ==== Descendants ==== →⇒ Czech: šmakovat === References === === Further reading === “Geschmack”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Geschmack” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. “Geschmack”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008– “Geschmack” in Duden online “Geschmack” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon