boar

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Boar (disambiguation) .

Boar head (heraldic pattern, Scottish)

Boar , especially Upper German Saubär for domestic pigs , and boar for wild boars , denotes the male sex of the pig .

In some species, as well as in stylized representations, the boar differs from the sow externally by pronounced canine teeth.

For naming

Boar figure as a vessel ( Etruscan , approx. 600–500 BC)

Eber , ahd. Ëpar is related to the Latin aper . It has an unclear connection to designations of rulers and heroes and is early name-forming (as with Eberhard ). Old word forms are also boar and pig boar .

Saubär , Bär or Bän are old expressions, but still alive in the Upper German-speaking area and especially in the Bavarian and Austrian dialect. The term refers to the uncastrated male domestic pig intended for breeding (final stage boar) , while most male piglets (young animals) are intended for fattening and are therefore castrated in the first days of life . The word, ahd. Pêr , mhd. Bêr , has the same root as the engl. boar , boar ', and with the word, Bear ' not related.
Hacksch is also specifically the uncastrated male domestic pig. Another old word is watz .

The castrated boar is called Altschneider or Borg , depending on when it was castrated. The second word stands for Engl. pork 'pork', while pig 'pig' has no equivalent in modern German.

In wild , so wild boar, is the male animal for hunting wild boar , even outdated Keuler . Male wild boars up to one year old are called freshlings , up to the second year of life defectors , so that one speaks of 'boars' only from the third year onwards. A humorous term for two- to three-year-old male wild boars is a flicker . The term is probably derived from the aggressiveness of the young boars.
In art one speaks of wild boar when it comes to boar .

Some of these names are also used figuratively as a swear word , such as the feminine form 'sow'.

reception

Eberbach  DE ( talking coat of arms )

The boar is generally in the form of wild boar boar as a symbol of the powerful and aggressive than epitome of struggle courage and unbridled force of nature, which is probably from his position as a wild game comes from - and pork in general with his as Erdwühler from the European culture rather dubious image differs. In Asia, on the other hand, the pig, with its pronounced social life, is the symbol of family and society (cf. for example the 12  branches of the earth , the Chinese zodiac signs), this applies to the female-dominated groups as well as the boar rots. The boar was especially revered in ancient Greece ( Erymanthian boar , Kalydonian boar ) and in ancient Japan.

A typical old Germanic name is Eberhard ('strong as a boar / who can hunt the boar').

In heraldry , the heraldic boar is one of the rarer heraldic animals , it shows itself both as an image of itself and as a hunting animal, and today tends to be represented as a boar, i.e. wild boar.

See also

• Domestic pig , wild boar - on the biology of the subspecies of real pigs
• Pig production - to the pig as a farm animal
• Boar fattening as an alternative to castration
• List of names for domestic and wild animals - an overview of other animals

literature

• Heinrich Beck , Karl Horst Schmidt :  Boar. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 6, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1986, ISBN 3-11-010468-7 , pp. 328–336.

Web links

Commons : Boars (domestic pigs)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

• Link catalog on boar fattening at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry EBER, m. aper. In: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: German Dictionary . Leipzig 1854–1960 ( http://dwb.uni-trier.de/ )
2. ↑ Entry EBERSCHWEIN, n. Aper, schwineber. In: Grimm: German dictionary. ( http://dwb.uni-trier.de/ )
3. ↑ Pig ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . In: vulkanland.at, peasant language .
4. ↑ Entry BÄR, m. aper. In: Grimm: German dictionary. ( http://dwb.uni-trier.de )
5. ^ Günter Bergmann: Small Saxon dictionary. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1989. "De Saue muss bei'n Hacksch."
6. ↑ duden.de (link no longer available)
7. ↑ Entry KEULER, KEILER, m., The wild boar. In: Grimm: German dictionary. ( http://dwb.uni-trier.de )
8. ↑ Entry HOSENFLICKER, m. caligarum interpolator. In: Grimm: German dictionary. ( http://dwb.uni-trier.de )
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Symbol: Boar. In: The large art dictionary by PW Hartmann (on beyars.com).
10. ↑ ^{a b} Animal symbols, using the example of the Chinese zodiac. According to Herder's symbol lexicon, on chrhuck.ch, accessed February 6, 2016.