Haubitze

German

Etymology

Borrowed during the Hussite Wars (earlier 15th c.) from Old Czech haufnicě (modern Czech houfnice), derived from húf, hauf (“heap”), a borrowing from Middle High German hūfe. Compare modern German Haufen, modern Czech houf (“flock, crowd”). Early German forms were huffnitze, hauffenicz. The contemporary form with -b- appears around 1700.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /haʊ̯ˈbɪt͡sə/
Audio (file)

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

(military) howitzer

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Dutch: houwitser
- → English: howitzer
→ French: obus
- → Catalan: obús
- → Dutch: obus
- → Ottoman Turkish: اوبوز‎, اوبوس‎ (obüs)
  - Turkish: obüs
- → Portuguese: obus
- → Romanian: obuz
- → Spanish: obús
→ Italian: obice
→ Polish: haubica
- → Belarusian: га́убица (háubica)
- → Russian: га́убица (gáubica)
- → Ukrainian: гаубиця (haubycja)
→ Serbo-Croatian: hàubica
→ Swedish: haubits
- → Finnish: haupitsi

References

Haubitze in: Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), published at dwds.de
“Haubitze” in: Kluge/Seebold, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2002
Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia

Further reading

“Haubitze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Haubitze on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
“Haubitze” in Duden online

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