ernst

From Middle Dutch ernst, from Old Dutch ernost, from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz.

• IPA^(key): /ɛrnst/

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• Hyphenation: ernst

ernst m (uncountable)

1. seriousness

   Synonyms: serieusheid, seriositeit

2. (obsolete) earnestness, industriousness

   Synonyms: ijver, vlijt

• Afrikaans: erns
• Negerhollands: ernst

• nerts, snert

From Middle High German ërnst, from Old High German ernust, from Proto-West Germanic *ernust, from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz, whence also English earnest.

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁnst/

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ernst (strong nominative masculine singular ernster, comparative ernster, superlative am ernstesten)

1. serious, severe, grave

• Ernst
• ernsthaft (“seriously”)
• ernst nehmen (“to take seriously”)
• es ernst meinen (“to mean it”)

• “ernst” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “ernst” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “ernst” in Duden online
• “ernst” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• ernest

From Old Dutch ernost, from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz.

ernst m

1. combativeness
2. eagerness, zeal
3. seriousness

• Dutch: ernst
  • Afrikaans: erns
  • Negerhollands: ernst
• Limburgish: èrns

• “ernst”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ernst”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Borrowed from German ernst.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrnst/
• Rhymes: -ɛrnst
• Syllabification: ernst

ernst (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

1. serious

ernst (not comparable)

1. seriously

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “ɛ̃rnst”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 240