Eingeweide

• Ingeweide (obsolete)
• Geweide (obsolete)

From Middle High German geweide or ingeweide, mostly attributed to hunter's idiom, the guts being thrown to the dogs as their food, and then a derivation from Weide (“food, pasture”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“chase, persecute”).

Others have suggested a connection to the tree name Weide (“willow”), in the sense of “something wound up, convoluted”, and then from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (“to turn, rotate”). Compare Latin viscera (“internal organs, entrails”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯nɡəvaɪ̯də/

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Eingeweide n (strong, genitive Eingeweides, plural Eingeweide)

1. (mostly plural) guts, internal organs

   Synonyms: Innereien pl; Gedärm n, Gedärme pl

   • 1984, Die Ärzte, Schlaflied, on the album Debil:

     [Das Monster] beißt Dir in den Hals und trinkt Dein Blut. Ohne Blut bist Du bleich wie Kreide; dann frißt es Deine Eingeweide.

     [The Monster] bites you in the neck and drinks your blood. Without blood you are as pale as chalk; and then it eats your internal organs.

• “Eingeweide” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Eingeweide” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Eingeweide” in Duden online
• “Eingeweide” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Eingeweide on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de