unseretwegen

== German == === Alternative forms === unsretwegen (somewhat less common) unsertwegen unserntwegen, unsrentwegen, unserentwegen (all archaic) === Etymology === Previously more common as unsertwegen, the form unseretwegen likely became dominate out of assimilation to the construction -etwegen as in meinetwegen, deinetwegen, etc. Shortened from von unseretwegen, which can be traced through two developmental routes. One route is from von unsernt / unsrent / unserent wegen, from von unseren wegen, from Middle High German von unsern wegen, in which wegen was the dative plural of modern-day Weg and unsern was the possessive pronoun in the dative plural. Another route can be traced from von unsertwegen / von unsert wegen, from Middle High German von unsert wegen, from von unser wegen, in which unser was the genitive pronoun. See more at wegen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʊnzəʁətˌveːɡən/, /ˌʊnzəʁətˈveːɡən/ === Adverb === unseretwegen because of us, for our sake Synonym: (colloquial) wegen uns as far as we are concerned (we don't mind if); for all we care === Further reading === “unsertwegen” in Duden online “unseretwegen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “wegen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN “unseretwegen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “unsertwegen, unseretwegen”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer. “unsertwegen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.