Teufel

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Teufel. === Proper noun === Teufel (plural Teufels) A surname from German. ==== Statistics ==== According to the 2010 United States Census, Teufel is the 29550th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 798 individuals. Teufel is most common among White (96.12%) individuals. === Further reading === Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Teufel”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German tiuvel, from Old High German tiufal, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul. Cognate to Bavarian Teifl, Deife, Pennsylvania German Deiwel, Dutch duivel, Old Saxon diubol (German Low German Düwel, Dîwel), English devil. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɔʏfl̩/ Rhymes: -ɔɪ̯fəl Hyphenation: Teu‧fel === Noun === Teufel m (strong, genitive Teufels, plural Teufel, diminutive Teufelchen n, feminine Teufelin) (singular only) the Devil, Satan (supreme evil spirit in the Abrahamic religions) 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, volume 9, booklet 1 (Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag), page 14: a devil, satan (a creature of hell, a demon, a fallen angel) a devil, satan (an evil person) ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== Satan ==== Derived terms ==== Compounds Phrases ==== Related terms ==== Deibel === Further reading === “Teufel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “Teufel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Teufel” in Duden online Teufel on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de