An archaic or variant plural form of dachshund (the standard plural is now 'dachshunds').
From German 'Dachshunde,' the original German plural form. Early English adopters of the breed sometimes used the German plural, but this has been largely superseded by the regular English plural 'dachshunds.'
The word 'dachshunde' is a linguistic fossil—it shows a moment when English speakers borrowed a German word but weren't sure how to pluralize it, so they used the German rule before eventually adopting English's standard '-s' pluralization, a pattern that happened with many imported dog breed names.
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