Schweinchen

German

Etymology

Schwein +‎ -chen. In the sense of "jack-ball", a semantic loan from French cochonnet.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʃvaɪ̯nçən]
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: Schwein‧chen

Noun

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

Diminutive of Schwein, piggy
jack-ball
Synonyms: Zielkugel, Sau

Declension

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

Derived terms

schweinchenrosa

Further reading

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

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