Meerkatze – German noun declension

Noun: Meerkatze
Gender: Feminine
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Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Meerkatze

Teetasse, Hemmschwelle, Türangel, Entspannungspause, Umgehungsstraße, Schuppenflechte, Glasplatte, Türfalle, Teestube, Drossel, Biosynthese, Briefklammer, Bandbrasse, Bandbreite, Eisscholle, Bauweise, Umhängetasche, Schwester, K-Frage, Abflughalle, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Middle High German merekatze, from Old High German merikazza (11th century); equivalent to Meer (“sea”) + Katze (“cat”). So called probably because they were brought to Europe over the sea from Africa. The restriction to the specific species is obviously not original, but a fairly recent scientific use. Adelung (ca. 1780) still defines it as referring to any long-tailed monkey. Compare Middle Dutch meercatte, whence eventually English meerkat.

Verbs referencing "Meerkatze"

Dutch Nouns meerkat, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns apekatt, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns apekatt, Swedish Nouns markatta.

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