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Krüger, Krueger [note 1] or Kruger (without the umlaut Ü) are German surnames originating from Krüger, meaning tavern-keeper in Low German and potter in Central German and Upper German, both associated with the Germanic word wikt:Krug, "jug".
Cruger, or Crüger, is a surname of German/Yiddish origin, altered form of Kruger. [1] Notable people with the surname include: Carl Friedrich August Alexander Crüger (1813-1885), German entomologist; Daniel Cruger (1780-1843), American lawyer; Henry Cruger (1739–1827), American and British politician; Herbert Crüger (1911-2003), German ...
German words which come from Latin words with c before e, i, y, ae, oe are usually pronounced with (/ts/) and spelled with z. The letter q in German only ever appears in the sequence qu (/kv/), with the exception of loanwords, e.g., Coq au vin or Qigong (which is also written Chigong). The letter x (Ix, /ɪks/) occurs almost exclusively in ...
Historically, long s (ſ) was used as well, as in English and many other European languages. [3] While the Council for German Orthography considers ä, ö, ü, ß distinct letters, [4] disagreement on how to categorize and count them has led to a dispute over the exact number of letters the German alphabet has, the number ranging between 26 ...
By the late 1400s, the choice of spelling between sz and ss was usually based on the sound's position in the word rather than etymology: sz ( ſz ) tended to be used in word final position: uſz (Middle High German: ûz, German: aus), -nüſz (Middle High German: -nüss(e), German: -nis); ss ( ſſ ) tended to be used when the sound occurred ...
Fraktur is still used among traditional Anabaptists to print German texts, while Kurrent is used as hand writing for German texts. Groups that use both forms of traditional German script are the Amish, Old Order Mennonites, Hutterites, and traditional Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites who live mostly in Latin America today. [citation needed]
Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal ...
General Kruger, Krüger, or Krueger may refer to: Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894–1945), German Army general; Otto Krueger (general) (1891–1976), German Luftwaffe major general; Paul Kruger (1825–1904), South African commandant-general; Walter Krueger (1881–1967), U.S. Army general; Walter Krüger (SS general) (1890–1945), German SS ...