Haufen

See also: haufen and häufen

German

Alternative forms

Haufe (archaic)

Etymology

From a merger of Middle High German hūfe (hūf), houf (houfe), from Old High German hūfo (more southern) and houf (more northern), from Proto-Germanic *hūpô and its ablaut variant *haupaz, respectively. With the former is cognate Middle Low German hūpe, with the latter Dutch hoop, English heap.

Already in Middle High German the two forms began to influence each other such that the originally weak hūfe developed the strong byform hūf, while the originally strong houf developed the weak byform houfe. In Modern Standard German the vowels -ū- and -ou- regularly coalesced into -au-, which completed the merger. The strong stem is preserved in zuhauf.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊ̯fən/
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Hyphenation: Hau‧fen

Noun

Haufen m (strong, genitive Haufens, plural Haufen, diminutive Häufchen n or Häuflein n)

Declension

Declension of Haufen [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Haufen	die	Haufen
genitive	eines	des	Haufens	der	Haufen
dative	einem	dem	Haufen	den	Haufen
accusative	einen	den	Haufen	die	Haufen