Handy
English
editEtymology
editOriginating as a nickname for a handy person.
Proper noun
editHandy
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- (rare) A male given name from English.
Anagrams
editGerman
editEtymology
editSome sources claim the existence of an early English preform. Perhaps from English handie-talkie, apparently used as a Motorola product name based on walkie-talkie. Or perhaps derived from English handheld transceiver, coined by CB radio users, later informally applied to the first mobile phones, and soon found in product names.
Others assert the use for a phone is exclusively German, possibly as a short form of Handfunktelefon, as which it was marketed by firms like Bosch and Hagenuk.[1] Thus equivalent to an anglicisation of Hand (“hand”) + -i (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editHandy n (strong, genitive Handys, plural Handys or (now nonstandard) Handies)
- (mobile telephony) mobile phone, mobile, cell phone, phone (portable, wireless telephone)
- Synonyms: Mobiltelefon, (Switzerland) Natel
- 1994 May 11, Ralf Schlüter, “Stimmungen frei Hand”, in Berliner Zeitung[1]:
- Alle paar Minuten hängt er am Handy und macht Termine klar.
- Every few minutes he's on his cell phone arranging appointments.
- 2008, Ulrich Breymann, Heiko Mosemann, Java me, Hanser Verlag, →ISBN, page 283:
- Bluetooth ist eine drahtlose Kommunikationstechnologie. Der Ursprung dieser Technologie liegt im Jahre 1994, als die Firma Ericsson eine Alternative zu Kabeln für die Verbindung ihrer Handys zum Zubehör wie Headsets suchte.
- Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology. This technology originated in 1994, when Ericsson was looking for an alternative to cables for connecting their cell phones to accessories like headsets.
- 2018, “Unwiederbringlich”, in Die Unendlichkeit, performed by Tocotronic:
- Es gab noch keine Handys / Es war alles Gegenwart
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- →? English: handy
References
edit- ^ Elizabeth M Christopher, International Management: Explorations Across Cultures, Kogan Page Publishers, 2012, p. 272.
Further reading
edit- “Handy” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Handy” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Handy” in Duden online
Handy on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Luxembourgish
editEtymology
editVia German Handy, from English handy.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editHandy m (plural Handyen)
- mobile phone, mobile
- Hien däerf den Handy vu sengem eelere Brudder benotzen.
- He may use his elder brother's mobile phone.
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