Bather
Bather is a term from the sailor's language . The seafarers describe every guest on board as friendly and so ironic who takes part in a voyage or a sea trip but does not perform any tasks in the ship's operation. Within the occupation against it is a " guest " (pl .: Gasten) a sailor in a specific position or specific tasks, such as a helmsman guest , signalman , helmsman , pumps guest , boot host or Fallreepsgast ( mhd. Hospitable = warrior).
Etymologically , the word guest belongs to the West Indo-European root ghost-s´ and means stranger who is given shelter and storage in front of the locked door of one's own house; the stranger can be both friend and foe. Furthermore, “guest” was understood to mean a journeyman , a comrade, a comrade. "Schipgast" for sailors or boatmen was part of the nautical vocabulary of that time.
When the non-seafarers on board were mockingly assigned the defining word “bathing”, it was almost exactly the time when well-heeled summer visitors increasingly visited the fishing villages and port cities. The locals called the temporarily newcomers initially suggestive Isenbahner because the railroad came and again disappeared with her, or even Oorsutkäuhlers - "Arschauskühler" because it too soon appearing to a coastal residents much season frolicked on the beach and bathing. Probably long before they were referred to as “ holidaymakers ”, the word bather became the general term for them, at first with an ironic undertone, which expressed the pejorative attitude of the long-time residents towards the people who were lazing around for them. It cannot be ruled out that seafarers took up the floor on land.
The origin of the word is also subject to a different interpretation, which leads the maritime bather back to the word bathing puff . First was a Quast in earlier centuries a tuft or tassel and the end of Kuhschwanzes until a coarse brush was. In the 18th century, Quast was a dirty word for a perverse, whimsical and strange person. In the 19th century, Low German was used to refer to a silly person as Hans Quast .
The ironic term "bather" spread and became common on merchant ships ; they were transferred to passengers and finally all persons were named bather who were temporarily on board but were superfluous for the use of the ship. It is still like that today.
See also
literature
- Friedrich Kluge : Sailor's language. Verbatim history handbook of German boatman expressions of older and more recent times . Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle ad Saale 1908 (Reprint of the 1911 edition: Hain, Meisenheim 1973, ISBN 3-920307-10-0 )
- Gustav Goedel : Etymological dictionary of the German seaman's language , Kiel and Leipzig 1902, in wikisource , OCLC: 2871717 , for download here
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Goedel: Etymological dictionary of the German seaman's language , page 35 ff, PDF s. 44 ff, see also “Literature”.