Hand

• As a Dutch, German, and English surname, from the noun hand, or used to translate surname for hand in other languages.
• Also as an English surname, possibly from a pet form of Randall or names like Johan and Henry.

• Rhymes: -ænd

Hand

1. A surname.

• Hand County

• Dahn, Danh, H-DNA, NADH, dahn, hDNA

• Hank (chiefly western Ripuarian)

From Middle High German and Old High German *hand, northern variant of hant. The regular form in Moselle Franconian and some southern dialects of Ripuarian is Hand with a plural Hänn (< *hende) through the development: intervocalic -nd- → -nn-. The regular form in most of Ripuarian is Hank with a plural Häng (< *henge) through velarization and subsequently a corresponding development: intervocalic -ŋg- → -ŋŋ-.

These regular systems are preserved in Moselle Franconian and western Ripuarian. In many eastern and central Ripuarian dialects, the native velarization has to a large degree been reverted under the influence of standard German and surrounding varieties. This reversion, which has emanated from Cologne, is irregular, affecting -nk more than it does -ng-, and hence it has led to occasional variation between velarized and de-velarized forms within the inflectional paradigm of one word (compare Wand, Zand, schänge).

• IPA^(key): /hant/

Hand f (plural Hänn or Häng, diminutive Händche)

1. (many dialects) hand

• The plural Hänn is used in Moselle Franconian and some southern dialects of Ripuarian. The form Häng is used in many Ripuarian dialects, including Kölsch.

From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.

Compare Dutch hand, English hand, West Frisian hân, Danish hånd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).

• IPA^(key): /hant/
  • IPA^(key): [hɑnd̥] (Swiss, Austro-Bavarian)

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• Rhymes: -ant

Hand f (genitive Hand, plural Hände, diminutive Händchen n or Händlein n)

1. hand
   • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 103:

     Rette mich, murmelte er vor sich hin, unwillkürlich mit gefalteten Händen, als wäre es ein Gebet an sie.

     Save me, he mumbled to himself, involuntarily with folded hands, as if it was a prayer to her.

• Handen
• zuhanden

Hand n or f (strong, genitive Hands or Hand, no plural)

1. (soccer, informal) Short for Handspiel.

   Das war Hand!

   That was a handball!

   Das erste Hand war vor dem Strafraum, aber das zweite hätte Elfmeter geben müssen.

   The first handball was outside the box, but the second one should have been a penalty.

• Generally used without preceding articles, determiners, or adjectives. When they are used, however, they tend to be neuter rather than feminine.

• “Hand” in Duden online
• “Hand” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Hand” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Hand” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Hand”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle High German hant and Old High German hant, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.[1]

Cognate with German Hand and Luxembourgish Hand.

• IPA^(key): /hant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Hyphenation: Hand

Hand f (nominative plural Henn, diminutive Hendche)

1. hand (part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist)

   zwetter Hand ― secondhand

From Middle Low German hant, from Old Saxon hand, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.

Compare Dutch hand, English hand, West Frisian hân, Danish hånd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).

• IPA^(key): /hant/
• Rhymes: -ant

pl3=Hännen

Hand m (plural Hänn' or Hänn)

1. hand

From Middle High German and Old High German *hand, northern variant of hant, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.

• IPA^(key): /hant/, [hɑnt]

  Rhymes: -ɑnt

Hand f (plural Hänn, diminutive Händchen)

1. hand

From Middle High German and Old High German hant, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.

Compare German Hand, Dutch hand, English hand.

Hand f (plural Hend)

1. hand
2. handwriting