Noun: wereld
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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De werelden van wetenschap en kunst kunnen soms samenkomen. (The worlds of science and art can sometimes intersect.)
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In het kleine wereldje van de mode heersen vaak grote ego's. (In the small world of fashion, big egos often reign.)
Nouns inflected like wereld
motiveering,
Duitse herdershond,
urilift,
vervolmaking,
elektrische spanning,
ovenfriet,
winteravond,
weervrouw,
besteding,
bloemenveiling,
vertakking,
tintinofiel,
synaps,
olieraffinaderij,
vliegtuigkaping,
sawaslang,
verzetting,
afrondfout,
druivenoogst,
wintermaand, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
4. Proto-Germanic *weraz
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi
7. Proto-Germanic *alaną
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
9. Proto-Germanic *-þiz
10. Proto-Germanic *aldiz
11. Proto-Germanic *weraldiz
12. Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
13. Old Dutch werilt
14. Middle Dutch werelt
15. Dutch wereld
16. From Middle Dutch werelt, from Old Dutch werilt, werolt, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz, from Proto-Germanic *weraz (“man”) + *aldiz (“time, age, old”), hence "age of man".
17. Cognate to West Frisian wrâld, English world, German Welt, Swedish värld. See: English Nouns '
world', German Nouns '
Welt', Swedish Nouns '
värld'.
Verbs referencing "wereld"
English Nouns
world, German Nouns
Welt, Danish Nouns
verden.
Translations