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Delle
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delle dêlle
English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
en female.
Etymology 2
From en fr -, from en frm Deyle, from en la-med Dadila, from en la-lat Datira.
Proper noun
en commune in dept/Territoire de Belfort r/Bourgogne-Franche-Comté c/France, on the border with Switzerland.
References
Dictionnaire topographique du département du Haut-Rhin - Georges Stoffel (1868).
German
Etymology
From de gmh telle, from de goh *tella, ultimately from de gem-pro *daljō.
The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare gml delle). The form Tell(e) persists dialectally. Cognate with nl - (dialectal) nl del and en dell.
Pronunciation
de /ˈdɛlə/
de De-Delle.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
f
dent
de Nach dem Unfall hatte ich eine tiefe Delle in der Motorhaube. After the accident I had a deep dent in my car’s bonnet.
hollow
Declension
f
Derived terms
de eindellen
Further reading