Rebellious

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Insubordinate is an adjective and, according to the Duden dictionary, means "defiant", "defiant". Originally it was mainly used in Austria and Bavaria ; in the 1960s and 1970s it also became known throughout the German-speaking area. The associated noun is insubordination .

Word origin and use of terms

Insubordinate comes from the Swiss word müpfig , meaning contradicting, which goes back to musty .

The term has been used in the German-language press since around 1960 . The Society for German Language (GfDS), which has its headquarters in Wiesbaden, declared it the "top word " of the words of 1971 in 1972 . It was the first - and at the time published once - annual linguistic review of this kind at GfDS; since 1978 the GfDS has published the words of the year annually .

Among other things, the linguist Broder Carstensen attested the word rebellious "great popularity". The GfDS attributed the increasing popularity to the use of the term in the "language of the ' left '".

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: rebellious  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information about rebellious . On: Duden Online ; Retrieved August 14, 2011.
  2. ↑ Rundschau. An American-German review. Volume 6, 1976. National Carl Schurz Association, p. 102 (German, English; online at Google books ).
  3. ↑ Jochen A. Bär, Society for German Language (ed.): From "rebellious" to "Teuro". The "Words of the Years" 1971–2002. Dudenverlag, Mannheim a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-411-04201-X , p. 106 ( Topic German , Vol. 4; online at Google books).
  4. ↑ The language service. Volumes 16-17, 1972. Society for German Language , ISSN  0038-8459 , p. 53 ( online at Google books).