beige

The title of this article is ambiguous. A description of the color beige can be found under Natural colors # beige .

Shard beige in the forest

Carefully stacked wooden beige on a house wall

A beige playing card

A beige (partly Biege , in dialect form Biige or Big, Biig, Biigi ) denotes a pile, pile or a regularly piled pile of objects of the same type and quality in Switzerland , southern Germany and southwest Germany. For example, books, notebooks, coins or plates can be turned up to a beige color and when playing cards ( Jassen ) the stack of cards is referred to as beige .

The word is also used in a figurative sense. For example, someone who piles up debt on debt is referred to as a debt biger .

Timber industry

In the timber industry, the stacked be Ster wood as beige or funeral Beige referred. The stacked wood on the house is a wood beige . In the Palatinate , the stock pile of firewood is next to the stove or the small space for the wood stock between the stove and the wall of the wood bending or wood bending .

Wood burning

For lighting purposes, we recommend stacking a cross beige, whereby to avoid the development of fine dust, the lighting module is not installed under the beige as is often the case, but on top of the fuel stack.

Web links

• Entry Bige in the Swiss Idioticon , Volume IV, Column 1056
• Holzposse: Storm “Lothar” feeds the dispute over a beige article in Schweizerischer Beobachter , issue 3 of February 4, 2000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New dictionary of the German, Malay and Dutch languages (1894)
2. ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Volume IV, columns 1056 f.
3. ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Volume IV, Column 1059
4. ↑ Kurt Meyer : Duden - How do you say in Switzerland? Dictionary of Swiss peculiarities. Duden Taschenbücher, Volume 22, 1989, ISBN 978-3-411-04131-2
5. ^ Ulrich Ammon (et al.): German dictionary of variants . W. de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-016575-3 , p. 98
6. ↑ beige. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 1 : A - Beer whey - (I). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
7. ↑ Firing up correctly - wood firing systems with upper burn-up ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 2.4 MB) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Instructions from EnergieSchweiz