Kuh

See also: kuh

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• Koh (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German kuo.

Noun

Kuh f

1. (southern Moselle Franconian) cow (female bovine animal)

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Kuh
• Luxembourgish: Kou

German

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German kuo, from Old High German kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: Q

Noun

Kuh f (genitive Kuh, plural Kühe)

1. cow (female bovine animal at or near adulthood)

Usage notes

• Unlike English cow, the German singular is not used for bulls or calves. The plural Kühe may at times be used generically when gender and age are not known (as when seeing a herd from afar) or irrelevant (as when speaking of the species as such). However, the word Rinder is more common for this, and only it would normally be used when bulls and calves are visibly included.

Declension

Declension of Kuh [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Kuh	die	Kühe
genitive	einer	der	Kuh	der	Kühe
dative	einer	der	Kuh	den	Kühen
accusative	eine	die	Kuh	die	Kühe

Derived terms

• Almkuh
• Elefantenkuh
• Hirschkuh
• Kuhauge
• Kuhbein
• Kuhdorf
• Kuheuter
• Kuhfladen
• Kuhglocke
• Kuhhaut
• Kuhhorn
• Kuhhüter
• Kuhmaul
• Kuhmilch
• Kuhschwanz
• Kuhstall
• Kuhtreiber
• Kuhweide
• Kuhwiese
• Kuhzaun
• Melkkuh
• Milchkuh
• Mutterkuh
• Stallkuh
• Wiesenkuh

Further reading

• “Kuh” in Duden online
• “Kuh”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

• khuu (Wiesemann spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Central Franconian Kuh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Syllabification: Kuh

Noun

Kuh f (plural Kih, diminutive Kihche)

1. cow

Derived terms

• Kuhmillich
• Kuhmist
• Kuhstall
• Millichkuh

Pennsylvania German

Orthographic variants

German-based	Kuh
English-based	koo

En Kuh.

Etymology

From Middle High German kuo, from Old High German kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō.

Cognates include German Kuh and English cow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: Kuh

Noun

Kuh f (plural Kieh)

1. cow

References

• J. C. Lins (1895), “Koo”, in Common sense Pennsylvania German dictionary, Reading: J. C. Lins, page 83
• A. R. Horne (1910), Horne's Pennsylvania German manual (third edition), Allentown, Pennsylvania: T. K. Horne, page 259
• M. B. Lambert (1924), “kuh”, in A Dictionary of the Non-English Words of the Pennsylvania-German Dialect, Lancaster: Lancaster Press
• Marcus Bachman Lambert (2016), “Kuh”, in Pennsylvania Dutch Dictionary (in Pennsylvania German), PDEC