Schuh

German

Alternative forms

• Schuch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German schuo, levelled variant of schuoch (inflected schuo(h)-), from Old High German scuoh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh. More at shoe.

Cognate with Luxembourgish Schong, Dutch schoen, Low German Schoh, West Frisian skoech, English shoe, Danish sko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

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Noun

Schuh m (strong, genitive Schuhes or Schuhs, plural Schuhe or Schuh, diminutive Schühchen n or Schühlein n)

1. shoe

Usage notes

• The normal plural is Schuhe. The unchanged form Schuh is common in the vernacular, chiefly in the southern half of the language area, but in compounds also in the north.

Declension

Declension of Schuh [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Schuh	die	Schuhe, Schuh
genitive	eines	des	Schuhes, Schuhs	der	Schuhe, Schuh
dative	einem	dem	Schuh, Schuhe1	den	Schuhen, Schuh
accusative	einen	den	Schuh	die	Schuhe, Schuh

¹Now rare, see notes.

Hyponyms

• Arbeitsschuh
• Bundschuh
• Halbschuh
• Handschuh
• Hausschuh
• Hemmschuh
• Holzschuh
• Laufschuh
• Lederschuh
• Schlittschuh
• Schrittschuh
• Sportschuh
• Wanderschuh

Derived terms

• schuhartig
• schuhlos
• beschuhen
• umgekehrt wird ein Schuh daraus
• jemandem etwas in die Schuhe schieben

Related terms

• Schnabelschuh
• Schuhabsatz
• Schuhband
• Schuhcreme
• Schuhgeschäft
• Schuhgröße
• Schuhlöffel
• Schuhmacher
• Schuhschrank
• Schuhsohle
• Schuhspitze
• Schuhverkäufer

Further reading

• “Schuh”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Schuh” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Schuh” in Duden online
• Schuh on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German schuoch, from Old High German scuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *skōh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Syllabification: Schuh

Noun

Schuh m (plural Schuh, diminutive Schuhche)

1. shoe

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Schuh”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Pennsylvania German

Orthographic variants

German-based	Schuh
English-based	shoo

En Schuh.

Etymology

From Middle High German schuoch, from Old High German scuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *skōh.

Cognates include German Schuh and English shoe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: Schuh

Noun

Schuh m (plural Schuh)

1. shoe

References

• J. C. Lins (1895), “Shoo”, in Common sense Pennsylvania German dictionary, Reading: J. C. Lins, page 133
• A. R. Horne (1910), Horne's Pennsylvania German manual (third edition), Allentown, Pennsylvania: T. K. Horne, page 285
• M. B. Lambert (1924), “Schuh”, in A Dictionary of the Non-English Words of the Pennsylvania-German Dialect, Lancaster: Lancaster Press
• Marcus Bachman Lambert (2016), “Schuh”, in Pennsylvania Dutch Dictionary (in Pennsylvania German), PDEC