spiegel

From Middle Dutch spiegel, from Old Dutch spēgal, from Proto-West Germanic *spēgl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.ɣəl/

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• Hyphenation: spie‧gel
• Rhymes: -iɣəl

spiegel m (plural spiegels, diminutive spiegeltje n)

1. mirror

   Spiegeltje, spiegeltje aan de wand, wie is de schoonste van het land?

   Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? (lit. “of the land”)

2. stern of a ship
3. level (amount of a substance)

• Afrikaans: spieël
  • → Xhosa: isipili
• Limburgish: spegel
• Negerhollands: spiegel
• Sranan Tongo: spikri, spigri
  • Aukan: sipikii
    • Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: spikri
  • Saramaccan: sipéi, sipé
• → Kari'na: supukili
• → Papiamentu: spiel
• → Warao: mu-sebihi

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spiegel

1. inflection of spiegeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

From Old High German spiegal, from Proto-West Germanic *spēgl.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈs̠pɪe̯ɡəl/

spiegel m

1. mirror

• Bavarian: Spiagl
• German: Spiegel
  • → Esperanto: spegulo
  • → Kashubian: szpédżel
  • → Romansch: spievel, spieghel, spejel
  • → Russian: с̌пи́гел (špígel)
• Hunsrik: Spieghel
• Luxembourgish: spiegel
• Yiddish: שפּיגל (shpigl)