- Koh(Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian)
Inherited fromMiddle High Germankuo, fromOld High Germankuo, fromProto-West Germanic*kō, fromProto-Germanic*kōz, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷṓws.
Kuh f
- (southern Moselle Franconian)cow(female bovine animal)
Inherited fromMiddle High Germankuo, fromOld High Germankuo, fromProto-West Germanic*kō, fromProto-Germanic*kōz, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷṓws.
Kuh f (genitiveKuh,pluralKühe)
- cow(female bovine animal at or near adulthood)
- UnlikeEnglishcow, the German singular is not used for bulls or calves. The pluralKühe may at times be used generically when gender and age are not known (as when seeing a herd from afar) or irrelevant (as when speaking of the species as such). However, the wordRinder is more common for this, and only it would normally be used when bulls and calves are visibly included.
Declension ofKuh [feminine]
- “Kuh” inDuden online
- “Kuh” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Inherited fromCentral FranconianKuh, fromMiddle High Germankuo, fromOld High Germankuo, fromProto-West Germanic*kō, fromProto-Germanic*kōz, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷṓws.[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈkʰuː/
- Rhymes:-uː
- Syllabification:Kuh
Kuh f (pluralKih,diminutiveKihche)
- cow
- ^Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Kuh”, inDicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti:Riograndenser Hunsrickisch,page99, column 1
Pennsylvania German
[edit]Inherited fromMiddle High Germankuo, fromOld High Germankuo, fromProto-West Germanic*kō, fromProto-Germanic*kōz, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷṓws.
Kuh f (pluralKieh)
- cow
