Ziel

See also: ziel

German

Etymology

From Middle High German zil, from Old High German zil, from Proto-West Germanic *til, from Proto-Germanic *tilą. Cognate to Old English til.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tsiːl/
Rhymes: -iːl
Audio: (file)
Audio: (file)

Noun

Ziel n (strong, genitive Zieles or Ziels, plural Ziele)

target
goal (not in football, see Tor)
aim
purpose
destination
finish line (in skiing)

Declension

Declension of Ziel [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Ziel	die	Ziele
genitive	eines	des	Zieles, Ziels	der	Ziele
dative	einem	dem	Ziel, Ziele¹	den	Zielen
accusative	ein	das	Ziel	die	Ziele

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

adjectives

compound nouns ending with -ziel

compound nouns beginning with Ziel-

verbs

Descendants

Hunsrik: Ziel
→ Bulgarian: цел (cel)
→ Czech: cíl
→ Hungarian: cél
- → Romanian: țel, țil
→ Macedonian: цел (cel)
→ Polish: cel, cyl, czel (Middle Polish)
- → Belarusian: цэль (celʹ)
- → Esperanto: celo
- → Kashubian: cél
- → Slovincian: cél
- → Russian: цель (celʹ), цѣль (cělʹ) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  - → Yakut: сыал (sıal)
- → Ukrainian: ціль (cilʹ)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ци̑љ
- Latin script: cȋlj
→ Slovak: cieľ
→ Slovene: cilj

Further reading

“Ziel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Ziel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Ziel” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German zil, from Old High German zil, from Proto-Germanic *tilą.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡siːl/
Rhymes: -iːl
Syllabification: Ziel

Noun

Ziel m (plural Ziel)

goal

Further reading

Online Hunsrik Dictionary