Welt

Borrowed from German Welt.

Welt (plural Welts)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Welt is the 42030^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 517 individuals. Welt is most common among White (95.74%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Welt”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Inherited from Middle High German wëlt, assimilative contraction of older wërlt, from Old High German weralt, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz. Cognate to English world, Dutch wereld, Swedish värld.

• IPA^(key): /vɛlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Welt f (genitive Welt, plural Welten)

1. world
   • Georg Büchner, Dantons Tod. Ein Drama (Condor Bibliothek im Apollo Verlag, Lindau, p. 50)

     CAMILLE: Die Welt ist der Ewige Jude, das Nichts ist der Tod, aber er ist unmöglich.

     The world is the Eternal Jew, the vacuum (Nought) is Death, but that is impossible.

   • Karl Marx (1978) [1845] “Thesen über Feuerbach”, in Marx-Engels-Werke‎^[1], volume 3, page 7; English translation from Marx/Engels Collected Work, volume 5, 1976, page 5

     Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert, es kömmt drauf an, sie zu verändern.

     The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

• An older dative/genitive singular form, Welten, survives in proverbs, such as Undank ist der Welten Lohn.

• “Welt” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Welt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Welt” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /velt/

Welt f (plural Welte)

1. world

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Old High German weralt, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz. Cognate with German Welt, Dutch wereld, English world.

• IPA^(key): /vælt/

Welt f (plural Welten)

1. world

• Welt in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire

Compare German Welt, Dutch wereld, English world, Swedish värld.

Welt f (plural Welder)

1. world

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