happig
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Bavarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally, "greedy, excessive, difficult to swallow", 18th-century creation apparently from happ, imitative of the sound of snapping. Possibly borrowed from German Low German; compare Low German happen, happen (“to snap, to devour”). Compare German happig.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]happig (comparative happiger, superlative happigstn)
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally, "greedy, excessive, difficult to swallow", 18th-century creation apparently from happ, imitative of the sound of snapping. Possibly borrowed from German Low German; compare Low German happen, happen (“to snap, to devour”). Related to German Happen (“bite-sized piece, bite”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]happig (strong nominative masculine singular happiger, comparative happiger, superlative am happigsten)
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of happig
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist happig | sie ist happig | es ist happig | sie sind happig | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | happiger | happige | happiges | happige |
genitive | happigen | happiger | happigen | happiger | |
dative | happigem | happiger | happigem | happigen | |
accusative | happigen | happige | happiges | happige | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der happige | die happige | das happige | die happigen |
genitive | des happigen | der happigen | des happigen | der happigen | |
dative | dem happigen | der happigen | dem happigen | den happigen | |
accusative | den happigen | die happige | das happige | die happigen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein happiger | eine happige | ein happiges | (keine) happigen |
genitive | eines happigen | einer happigen | eines happigen | (keiner) happigen | |
dative | einem happigen | einer happigen | einem happigen | (keinen) happigen | |
accusative | einen happigen | eine happige | ein happiges | (keine) happigen |
Comparative forms of happig
Superlative forms of happig
Further reading
[edit]- “happig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Categories:
- Bavarian onomatopoeias
- Bavarian terms derived from German Low German
- Bavarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Bavarian lemmas
- Bavarian adjectives
- German onomatopoeias
- German terms derived from German Low German
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German adjectives