Krebs – German noun declension

Noun: Krebs
Gender: Masculine
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Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Krebs

Kruzifix, Alltagsstress, Schauprozess, Schokoladekeks, Stichtag, Längenkreis, Ammoniumsalz, Vogelschiss, Speiseröhrenkrebs, Zahnschutz, Spritpreis, Flachkopfwels, Bienenwachs, Flüssiggas, Strafprozess, Markträumungspreis, Selensalz, Raummass, Rauhputz, Identitätsnachweis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle High German krebȥ, krebeȥ, krebeȥe, from Old High German crebiȥ, krebiȥ, from Proto-West Germanic *krabit, from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”), see also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”), Dutch kreeft.
2. The sense “cancer” is a semantic loan from Latin cancer. By metathesis from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab”); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab.
3. Compare Krabbe, English crab. See: Dutch Nouns 'kreeft'.

Verbs referencing "Krebs"

English Nouns crayfish, Danish Nouns kræft, Dutch Nouns kreeft, Danish Nouns krebs.

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