Speiche

German

Etymology

From Middle High German speiche, Old High German speihha, ultimately from the root of spitz (“spike”).

Cognate with Old Norse spik (“spike, sprig”), Old Saxon spēca (“spoke”), Old English spāce, Dutch speek, English spoke.^[1]

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯çə

Noun

Speiche f (genitive Speiche, plural Speichen)

1. spoke
2. (anatomy) radius

Declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Speiche	die	Speichen
genitive	einer	der	Speiche	der	Speichen
dative	einer	der	Speiche	den	Speichen
accusative	eine	die	Speiche	die	Speichen

Declension of Speiche [feminine]

References

1. Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Speiche”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

• “Speiche” in Duden online
• “Speiche” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache