Kehle

From Middle High German kële, from Old High German kela, from Proto-West Germanic *kelā, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ. Compare English jowl (“loose flesh around the cheeks and lower jaw”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeːlə/

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• Hyphenation: Keh‧le
• Rhymes: -eːlə

Kehle f (genitive Kehle, plural Kehlen, diminutive Kehlchen n or Kehllein n)

1. throat
   • 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 87:

     Die Kehle war mir wie ausgetrocknet. Ich konnte die Worte nur noch mühsam hervorquälen.

     My throat felt like it had dried-up. I could only painstakingly force the words out.

2. (engineering) fillet

• abkehlen
• Hohlkehle
• Kehllaut
• Kehlkopf
• kehlig

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

Kehle

1. plural of Kehl