Armbrust – German noun declension

German noun forms of Armbrust

Noun: Armbrust
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Indefinite

Singulareine Armbrust
Plural Armbrüste; Armbruste

Definite

Singulardie Armbrust
Pluraldie Armbrüste; Armbruste

Genitive

Indefinite

Singulareiner Armbrust
Plural Armbrüste; Armbruste

Definite

Singularder Armbrust
Pluralder Armbrüste; Armbruste

Dative

Indefinite

Singulareiner Armbrust
Plural Armbrüsten; Armbrusten

Definite

Singularder Armbrust
Pluralden Armbrüsten; Armbrusten

Accusative

Indefinite

Singulareine Armbrust
Plural Armbrüste; Armbruste

Definite

Singulardie Armbrust
Pluraldie Armbrüste; Armbruste

Sample Sentences

  • Zu den Waffen, die nicht allen Teutschen Völkern gemein, sondern nur gewissen Stämmen derselben eigenthümlich waren, gehörte die Armbrust. (The crossbow was one of the weapons that were not common to all German peoples, but peculiar only to certain tribes.) [1792, C. Meiners, L. I. Spittler, Neues Göttingisches Historisches Magazin, vol. 1, part 2, page 305:]

Nouns inflected like Armbrust

Armbrust,

Etymology

1. From Middle High German armbrust (12th century, variants armbrost, armborst, armbrast, armbst), from Medieval Latin arbalista, from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus (“bow”) + ballista (“ancient military engine for hurling missiles”) (compare English arbalest); modified, possibly by folk etymology, but as Grimm notes, the German noun was neuter well into the early modern period which excludes direct interpretation as a compound Arm (“arm”) + Brust (“breast”).
2. The feminine gender became predominant in the 18th century, clearly motivated by popular etymology as a compound in -Brust, also made explicit in hyphenated spelling Arm-Brust.
3. Gottsched (1748) suggested a derivation from Arm (“arm”) + Rüstung (“armament, armour”), in which he was followed by Boeheim (1890). See: Latin Nouns 'arcus', English Nouns 'arbalest'.

Verbs referencing "Armbrust"

Swedish Nouns armborst, Danish Nouns armbrøst, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns armbrøst, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns armbrøst.

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