The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

Category: German feminine given names

An inhabitant of Hesse is called a Hessian ( German: Hesse ( masculine ) or Hessin ( feminine )) ( see also Hessian ( soldiers )).

She is the first female Chancellor since the establishment of the original office in 1867, and known in German as Bundeskanzlerin, the feminine form of Bundeskanzler.

Category: German feminine given names

The three genders in German are masculine, feminine and neuter.

A German noun has one of three specific grammatical genders ( masculine, feminine, neuter ).

German has all three genders of late Proto-Indo-European — the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter.

Similarly, a noun ending in – er is likely to be masculine ( der Teller, der Stecker, der Computer ); however, das Messer (" knife ") and das Wasser (" water ") are neuter, whereas die Mutter (" mother ") can be feminine, as can die Butter (" butter ") in many forms of High German, although it is der Butter in Swiss German and Austro-Bavarian.

* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés, Anders or Andre.

Category: German feminine given names

Category: German feminine given names

In Bavarian dialect surnames of women are sometimes added the ending "… in ", used in standard High German to indicate noun variants for women or items of grammatical feminine gender, such as Näherin ( seamstress ), with Näher ( seamster ) being the male form.

For example, the common German word for girl is das Mädchen, which is neutral because it is a diminutive of die Maid ( feminine ) – the maiden.

The title of Archduke ( feminine: Archduchess ) ( German: Erzherzog, feminine form: Erzherzogin ) denotes a noble rank above Duke and below King, used only by princes of the Houses of Habsburg and Habsburg-Lorraine.

The town of Abensberg marks the start of the Deutsche Hopfenstraße ( German Hops Road ), a nickname given to the Bundesstraße 301, a German federal highway which runs through the heartland of Germany's hops-growing industry, ending in Freising.

In Venice he was given a valuable commission from the emigrant German community for the church of San Bartolomeo.

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

The Soviet scientists had suggested this name be given to element 105 ( which was finally called dubnium ) and the German team wished to recognise both Bohr and the fact that the Dubna team had been the first to propose the cold fusion reaction.

The German leadership had also been criticized for failing to understand the technical advances of the First World War, having given tank production the lowest priority and having conducted no studies of the machine gun prior to that war.

Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.

He spelled his own given name with a " C " in order to identify with the classical Western tradition ; writers who wrongly use " Karl " are seeking to emphasize his German identity.

These theories were given credence by the fact that when Germany surrendered in November 1918, its armies were still in French and Belgian territory, Berlin remained 450 miles from the nearest front, and the German armies retired from the field of battle in good order.

Undergraduate education was given in four or five year programs until 2002, styled along the lines of the German system of education ; graduates of these programs were granted an engineering title and allowed to prefix their name with the title ir.

The British presence was broadly popular ( particularly given the alternative of a German occupation ).

In Old High German and Middle High German Gift was the term for an " object that is given ".

Although it had always included a euphemistic meaning for " poison " (" being given "), over the following centuries it gradually suffered a full semantic change to the sole present German meaning " poison ".

It is still reflected in the German term for the English word dowry = Mitgift, das Mitgegebene, " that which is given " ( with the wedding ).

He was given a commission to write a cantata entitled " The German Resurrection ", which, after 1945, was taken by many as a reason to brand him as having been tainted by Nazi sympathy.

* German ( name ), the given name or surname of several people

The city's Latin name may be given as either Gedania, Gedanum or Dantiscum ; the variety of Latin names reflects the mixed influence of the city's Polish, German and Kashubian heritage.

Medieval German literature refers to literature written in Germany, stretching from the Carolingian dynasty ; various dates have been given for the end of the German literary Middle Ages, the Reformation ( 1517 ) being the last possible cut-off point.

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

The Charter of the German Expellees () of August 5, 1950, announced their belief in requiring that " the right to the homeland is recognized and carried out as one of the fundamental rights of mankind given by God ", while renouncing revenge and retaliation in the face of the " unending suffering " ( unendliche Leid ) of the previous decade, and supporting the unified effort to rebuild Germany and Europe.

Hedwig () is a German female given name.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

* Altenberg, the German name for Moresnet and Neutral Moresnet

** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

The name of Germany and the German language, in French, Allemagne, allemand, in Portuguese Alemanha, alemão, in Spanish Alemania, alemán, and in Welsh ( Yr ) Almaen, almaeneg are derived from the name of this early Germanic tribal alliance.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

The name is usually derived from a toponym, Angeln, from a Germanic word * anguz meaning " narrow " ( modern High German " eng ") or " angular " ( of the shape of the Jutland peninsula ).

While this went on MCP renamed itself to MCP CHIP but ran into problems with the German computer magazine CHIP, and had to return to its former name.

Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.

The name " alkaloids " () was introduced in 1819 by the German chemist Carl F. W.

In 1804, the German chemist Friedrich Sertürner isolated from opium a " soporific principle " (), which he called " morphium " in honor of Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams ; in German and some other Central-European languages, this is still the name of the drug.

Since German was the lingua franca of science ( and especially of psychiatry ) at that time, Kraepelin's use of Alzheimer's disease in a textbook made the name famous.

The German name " Dürer " is derived from the Hungarian, " Ajtósi ".

It comes, along with the name of the River Aar ( which was called Arula, Arola, and Araris in early times ), from the German Au, meaning floodplain.

* Alexandra ( singer ) ( 1942 – 1969 ), German singer ( stage name ; real name Doris Nefedov )

* Alexandra ( singer ), German singer, real name Doris Nefedov, maiden name Treitz ( 1942-1969 )

Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Plant potash lent the name to the element potassium, which was first derived from caustic potash, and also gave potassium its chemical symbol K ( cf German Kalium ), which ultimately derives from alkali.

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.