Elfenbein – German noun declension

Noun: Elfenbein
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Elfenbein

Kopiergerät, Betriebswirt, Einzelbetrieb, Acker-Schachtelhalm, Schmuckstein, Schmuckstück, Mundstück, Antiquariat, Türgriff, Walross-Elfenbein, Baustoff, Baustein, Dezernat, Kohlenwasserstoff, Gussteil, Drehort, Dreieck, Gitarrenspiel, Folgejahr, Schigebiet, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Middle High German elfenbein, from Old High German elfantbein, from Proto-West Germanic *elpandabain. Equivalent to Elefant + Bein. The loss of initial h- in early modern German was due to the influence of Latin elephās. Since the 19th century the word has been remotivated, somewhat meaningfully (with regard to the pure white colour of ivory), as Elfe (“elf”) + Bein (“bone”). See: Latin Nouns 'elephās'.

Verbs referencing "Elfenbein"

Danish Nouns elfenben, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns elfenben, Swedish Nouns elfenben, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns elfenbein, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns elfenbein.

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