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Handel

See also: handel and Händel

English

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Etymology

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From a German surname.

Proper noun

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Handel

  1. A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.
    • 2014 April 17, Tom Service, “Handel's Messiah: the sound of our better selves”, in The Guardian:
      Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its first performance in 1742.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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First attested as haenle in 1326. Compound of haan (“rooster, black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)”) and lo (“light forest”).

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Handel n

  1. A village in Gemert-Bakel, North Brabant, Netherlands
    Synonym: Bergkneuterrijk (Carnival nickname)

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  • van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

German

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Etymology

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From handeln, later specialized to its current meaning.

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Noun

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Handel m (strong, genitive Handels, plural Händel)

  1. deal
  2. trade, trading

Declension

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Declension of Handel [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Handel die Händel
genitive eines des Handels der Händel
dative einem dem Handel den Händeln
accusative einen den Handel die Händel

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