Botschaft
German
Etymology
From Middle High German botschaft, boteschaft, from Old High German botoscaft, equivalent to Bote + -schaft. Cognate with German Low German Böskupp, Dutch boodschap (whence also Afrikaans boodskap and Sranan Tongo boskopu), Swedish budskap, Danish budskab (whence also Norwegian Bokmål budskap), Norwegian Nynorsk bodskap, Icelandic boðskapur and Faroese boðskapur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈboːt.ʃaft]
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Noun
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Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
- Botschafter
- Botschaftsangehöriger
- Botschaftspersonal
- Frohe Botschaft
- Hiobsbotschaft
Further reading
- “Botschaft” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Botschaft” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Botschaft” in Duden online
Botschaft on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- “Botschaft” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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