Wurzel

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German wurzel, from Old High German wurzala, from Proto-Germanic *wurt- + *waluz. Compare Dutch wortel, Luxembourgish Wuerzel, Hunsrik Worzel, Low German Wuddel, Wortel, Vilamovian wücuł, West Frisian woartel, Old English wyrtwalu, Middle English wortwale; cf. modern English wort. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvʊʁt͡sl̩/ Hyphenation: Wur‧zel === Noun === Wurzel f (genitive Wurzel, plural Wurzeln, diminutive Würzelchen n or Würzlein n) root (biology) root Synonym: Wurz (figurative) root, the primary source, origin (mathematics) root, especially square root (linguistic morphology) root, the irreducible skeleton of a word (historical linguistics) root, internal etymon (Northern Germany) carrot ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== Fußwurzel, Handwurzel, Haarwurzel, Zahnwurzel Hauptwurzel, Luftwurzel, Nebenwurzel Baldrianwurzel, Brechwurzel, Graswurzel, Schwarzwurzel, Süßholzwurzel (mathematics) Quadratwurzel, Kubikwurzel (linguistics) Wortwurzel ==== Derived terms ==== wurzelig wurzelartig ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “Wurzel”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “Wurzel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Wurzel” in Duden online “Wurzel” in OpenThesaurus.de