Schritt

German (Berlin)

[ʃʁɪtʰ]

noun
Definitions
  • step, footstep, a single instance of walking
  • the horse gait called walk
  • crotch, the area between the human legs close to the genitals or comprising them
  • any of several obsolete linear measures about as long as a man steps (a pace), that is about 70–80 cm
  • any imaginary measure that is likened in its partitioning to the distance traveled by a leg moving forward in its single footsteps
  • step, move, stage (the part of a measure in the sense of an action one takes)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German schrit inherited from Old High German scrit inherited from Proto-Germanic *skriþiz.

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*skriþiz

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