venster
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Descendants
- → Fanagalo: festel
- → Sotho: fenstere
- → Xhosa: ifestile
- → Zulu: ifasitela
Danish
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch venster (venstre, veinster, etc.), from Old Dutch fenstar, from Latin fenestra. The computing sense is a loan translation of English window.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.stər/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: ven‧ster
- Rhymes: -ɛnstər
Synonyms
Derived terms
- vensterbank
- vensterglas
- vensterruit
Descendants
- Afrikaans: venster
- → Fanagalo: festel
- → Sotho: fenstere
- → Xhosa: ifestile
- → Zulu: ifasitela
- Berbice Creole Dutch: fensre
- Jersey Dutch: väänster, fäängster
- Negerhollands: fenter, venstu, venster
- → Arawak: penster
- → Sranan Tongo: fensre
- → Aukan: fensee
- → Caribbean Javanese: fénsré
- → Galibi Carib: fensere
- → Saramaccan: fensë
Middle High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German fenstar, from Latin fenestra (“window”).
Descendants
- Alemannic German: Pfeister, Pfäischter, Feister, Fäischter, Pfenster
- Swabian: Fenschdr, Feaschter
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: béestar
- Central Franconian:
- East Central German:
- Erzgebirgisch: Fansder
- Upper Saxon: Fensdor
- Vilamovian: faonster
- East Franconian:
- German: Fenster
- Rhine Franconian:
- Yiddish: פֿענצטער (fentster)
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