🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Hähnchen

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Haehnchen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Chicken/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Das Hähnchen schmeckt sehr lecker."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one.

    "The farmer feeds the chickens every morning."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Informal term meaning easily frightened or cowardly.

    "Don't be so chicken; jump into the pool!"

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'chicken' originates from the Old English 'cicen', which referred to a young fowl. Its roots can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic '*kikō', which also relates to similar terms in other Germanic languages, indicating a long-standing association with domesticated birds used for food.

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