Flinte

Probably from Swedish flinta (borrowed during the Thirty Years's War). The word goes back to the ignition with a flint.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɪntə/

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Flinte f (genitive Flinte, plural Flinten)

1. shotgun

• Schrotflinte
• Doppelflinte

• flintenartig

• Flint

• → Czech: flinta
• → Hungarian: flinta
  • → Romanian: flintă
• → Plautdietsch: Flint
• → Polish: flinta

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