Haubitze

German

Etymology

Borrowed during the Hussite Wars (early 15th c.) from Old Czech haufnicě (modern Czech houfnice), derived from húf, hauf (heap), a borrowing from Middle High German hūfe. Compare modern German Haufen, modern Czech houf (flock, crowd). Early German forms were huffnitze, hauffenicz. The current form with -b- appears around 1700.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haʊ̯ˈbɪt͡sə/
  • (file)

Noun

Haubitze f (genitive Haubitze, plural Haubitzen)

  1. (military) howitzer

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References

  1. Haubitze in: Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), published at dwds.de
  2. “Haubitze” in: Kluge/Seebold, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2002
  3. Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia

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