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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German name, from Old High German namo, from Proto-West Germanic *namō. Cognate with Dutch naam, Low German Naam, Yiddish נאָמען (nomen), English name, West Frisian namme, Danish navn, Swedish namn.

Pronunciation

Noun

Name m (weak, genitive Namens, plural Namen)

  1. name (forename, Christian name, given name)
  2. name (surname, family name)
  3. name (full name)
  4. (grammar, in compounds) noun, examples include Eigenname (proper noun), Sammelname (collective noun) and Gattungsname (appellative or common noun). Note: Compounds which aren't hyponyms of substantive are rare and obsolete, like Hauptname or Dingname (substantive noun), Beiname (adjective noun), Fürname (pronoun).

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Name” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Name” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Name on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
  • Name” in Duden online

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