schwanger

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German swanger, from Old High German swangar, from Proto-West Germanic *swangr (“heavy”), further origin unknown. Cognate with Old English swangor, Dutch zwanger (“pregnant”), and Yiddish שוואַנגער (shvanger, “pregnant”); compare also Lithuanian sunkùs (“heavy; difficult”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃvaŋər/, [ˈʃʋäŋɐ] === Adjective === schwanger (strong nominative masculine singular schwangerer, not comparable) pregnant (of humans) [with mit (+ dative) ‘with a child’ and von (+ dative) ‘from the father’] Synonyms: in anderen Umständen, in Hoffnung, guter Hoffnung (chiefly colloquial, sometimes frowned upon) pregnant, gravid (of animals) Synonym: trächtig (poetic) full of, laden with ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== bedeutungsschwanger schwängern Schwangerschaft === References === === Further reading === “schwanger”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “schwanger” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “schwanger” in Duden online == Hunsrik == === Etymology === From Middle High German swanger, from Old High German swangar, from Proto-West Germanic *swangr. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃvaŋa/ Rhymes: -aŋa Syllabification: schwan‧ger === Adjective === schwanger (not comparable) pregnant ==== Declension ==== === References === Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “schwanger”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 147, column 2