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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German hiure, from Old High German hiuro, hiuru, from hiu (“in this”) + jāru (“year”).[1] Compare German heute from Old High German hiu tagu ("this day").
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]heuer
- (Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, Liechtenstein, otherwise dialectal) this year
Usage notes
[edit]- The word is never used in northern and central Germany. It may even—at least by less educated speakers—be misinterpreted as a synonym of heute (“today”). It does however occasionally mean heutigentags (“nowadays”) or heute (“nowadays”), for example:
- 1654, Salomons von Golaw Deutscher Sinn-Getichte Drey Tausend, Breslau, p. 210, nr. [8]71 Heutige Welt-Kunst:
- [...]
Wer sich desen wil befleissen
Kan Politisch heuer heissen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1654, Salomons von Golaw Deutscher Sinn-Getichte Drey Tausend, Breslau, p. 210, nr. [8]71 Heutige Welt-Kunst:
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]heuer
- inflection of heuern:
References
[edit]- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “heuer”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Further reading
[edit]- “heuer” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “heuer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “heuer” in Duden online
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