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Schmetterling
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German
Etymology
Attested ca. 1500, standard since the 18th century. From an de gmw-ecg - dialect word, equivalent to de Schmetten cream -ling, due to an old belief that butterflies eat milk products or, in a more ornamented form, that witches transform themselves into butterflies in order to steal such products.Schmetterling, in: W. Pfeifer et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, 1993. Compare en butterfly.
Pronunciation
de /ˈʃmɛtərlɪŋ/ [ˈʃmɛ.tɐ.lɪŋ]
de De-Schmetterling.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m,s:es
de in common use butterfly
de Tagfalter Sommervogel<q:Switzerland> Buttervogel<q:obsolete> Butterfliege
de chiefly biology any insect of the order Lepidoptera order, i.e. a butterfly or moth
de Falter
de swimming butterfly (kind of stroke)
de Delphin
Declension
m,s:es
Hyponyms
de Schmetterlingsart
de Schmetterlingsbestäubung
de Schmetterlingsblütler
de Schmetterlingsfisch
de Schmetterlingsflügel
de Schmetterlingskunde
de Schmetterlingsnetz
de Schmetterlingsraupe
de Schmetterlingssammlung
de Schmetterlingsstil
Derived terms
de Schmetterlingsfamilie
See also
de Motte
de Nachtfalter, de Tagfalter
de Raupe
References
Further reading
de
de Butterflies Swimming
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
hrx /ˈʃmetɐliŋ/
Noun
m Schmetterling Schmetterlingche
butterfly
Further reading