Kehle

German

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkeːlə/
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Hyphenation: Keh‧le
Rhymes: -eːlə

Noun

Kehle f (genitive Kehle, plural Kehlen)

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.
  The throat felt like dried-up to me. I could only painstakingly force the words out.
(engineering) fillet

Declension

Declension of Kehle [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Kehle	die	Kehlen
genitive	einer	der	Kehle	der	Kehlen
dative	einer	der	Kehle	den	Kehlen
accusative	eine	die	Kehle	die	Kehlen

Derived terms

Further reading

“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

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Kehle

plural of Kehl

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