Kehle

German

Etymology

From Middle High German kële, from Old High German kela, from Proto-West Germanic *kelā, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ. Compare English jowl (loose flesh around the cheeks and lower jaw).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkeːlə/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Keh‧le
  • Rhymes: -eːlə

Noun

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

  1. throat
    • 1919, Walther Kabel, Irrende Seelen, Werner Dietsch Verlag, page 87:
      Die Kehle war mir wie ausgetrocknet. Ich konnte die Worte nur noch mühsam hervorquälen.
      My throat felt like it had dried-up. I could only painstakingly force the words out.
  2. (engineering) fillet

Declension

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

Derived terms

Further reading

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Kehle

  1. plural of Kehl
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