Tenne

From Middle High German tenne, from Old High German tenni, from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“flat area; pasture”). Cognate with English den.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnə/

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Tenne f (genitive Tenne, plural Tennen)

1. threshing-floor
   • 1913 [1878], chapter 13, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina‎^[1], translation of Анна Каренина by Leo Tolstoy, part 2:

     Mit fröhlich strahlendem Gesichte, wie alles an diesem Tage, kam der Verwalter, in einem kurzen Schafpelz mit Lammfellbesatz, von der Tenne her; er zerknickte in den Händen einen Strohhalm.

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2. (by extension) a barn attached to a farmhouse, which is used (or was originally used) for threshing and/or keeping fodder

• In the extended sense of “barn”, the word is often still used with the preposition auf (“on”) rather than in. (Compare the same in Dachboden.)

• Futtertenne

• “Tenne”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “Tenne” in Duden online
• “Tenne” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.