Gehöft

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German gehüfte, so attested 1309 in Königsdorf near Cologne; later also in East Central German gehoffte (and variants). Collective formation from Hof (“yard, farmyard, farm”). Regarding the Dutch colonisation in the east, it is possible that the German word goes back to Middle Dutch, in which ghehuchte, ghehochte, from Old Dutch *gihufti, is older and commoner. Plausibly the same is also true of rare Middle Low German gehüchte. Compare modern Dutch gehucht (“hamlet”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈhœft/
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Noun

Gehöft n (genitive Gehöftes or Gehöfts, plural Gehöfte)

  1. farm, farmstead, of any size, but especially a small one

Declension
Declension of Gehöft
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Gehöft die Gehöfte
genitive eines des Gehöftes,
Gehöfts		 der Gehöfte
dative einem dem Gehöft,
Gehöfte1		 den Gehöften
accusative ein das Gehöft die Gehöfte
1Now uncommon, see notes
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