Regen

• Reegen (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːɡən/, [ˈʁeː.ɡŋ̍], [-ɡən]

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• Hyphenation: Re‧gen

From Middle High German regen, from Old High German regan, from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regną. Cognate with Yiddish רעגן (regn), Dutch regen, English rain, Danish regn.

Regen m (strong, genitive Regens, plural Regen)

1. rain

The plural form is seldom used.

• “Regen” in Duden online
• “Regen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Regen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Regen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

The river name is the oldest, attested in Latin sources as Regana, Reganum, or Reganus, of unknown further ancestry.

der Regen m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Regens)

1. a river in Bavaria

Regen n (proper noun, genitive Regens or (optionally with an article) Regen)

1. a town and rural district of the Lower Bavaria region, Bavaria, Germany

• Regener

Regen m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Regens or (with an article) Regen, feminine genitive Regen, plural Regens or Regen)

1. a surname transferred from the place name

• Sächsisch Regen, historical German name of the Romanian city of Reghin.

Regen m (no plural)

1. alternative form of Ręgen (rain)

• Regin (Midlandsnormalen)

From Old Norse Reginn, likely related to regin (“the gods, the powers”).

• IPA^(key): /²rɛː.ʝən/, /²rɛɪː.ən/, /²rɛː.ɡən/

Regen m

1. (Norse mythology) name of a dwarf