Hürde
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See also: Hurde
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German hurt (genitive hürde), from Old High German hurt (“wickerwork”). The modern form is generalized from the Middle High German inflected forms. The consonantism -d- is already normal in written Middle High German, thus due to irregular re-voicing. The expected form hürte is, however, quite common in early modern German; -d- prevails, possibly under the re-inforcing influence of Low German (compare Middle Low German hurde).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Hürde f (genitive Hürde, plural Hürden)
- (sports or figurative) hurdle
- 2023 August 30, Esther Geißlinger, “Flensburger Baupläne stocken: Das fehlende Formular”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN:
- Geht es schief, wäre es nicht das erste Mal, dass die Flensburger Verwaltung ein Großprojekt plant, ohne alle rechtlichen und formalen Hürden aus dem Weg zu räumen […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (dated) fold, hurdle (frame of wattled twigs, etc., used for enclosing land)
- Synonym: Flechtzaun
- 1797, August Wilhelm Schlegel, transl., Ein Sommernachtstraum[2], translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, [Act II, scene i]:
- Leer steht die Hürd auf der ersäuften Flur, / Und Krähen prassen in der siechen Herde.
- The fold stands empty in the drownèd field, / And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;
Declension
[edit]Declension of Hürde [feminine]
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Hürde” in Duden online
- “Hürde” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Hürde” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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