School beginners

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Abc shooter with school cone
School Beginners (1958)

A starter is a child who enters the mainstream school system and goes to the first grade of elementary school, usually between the ages of five and seven. Colloquially, one also speaks of first graders , first graders (Central and Southern Germany) or first class (Southeast Germany, Eastern Austria), Abc-Schütze or Taferlklassler , also table class (Eastern Austria).

overview

In Germany , a school- age child is enrolled in primary school . However, early or later school enrollment is also possible at the request of the parents . The enrollment criteria are set by the education ministries of the federal states . They therefore do not have a uniform standard in Germany.

Other names

i-Dötzchen, i-Männchen, Taferlklassler

The name i-Dötzchen comes from the Rhineland . A small child is called Dotz or Dötzken (Dötzchen) in the Rhenish dialect . The first graders are called i-Dötzchen because in the past, when teaching German cursive at school, the letter " I " was usually the first to be taught. The word Dotz denotes a point, i.e. i-Dotz the i-point.

The i-male is the Westphalian equivalent of school beginners.

Abecedarians and Abc shooters

The outdated term Abecedarian ( late Latin : abecedarius or abecedaria ), like the term Abc-Sagittarius , comes from the fact that the student will now learn the Abc (late Latin: abecedarium ). The origin of the word component "Sagittarius" is unclear - etymologically two explanations are possible:

  • In Latin, tiro means recruit / beginner. This word was wrongly associated with the Latin word “tirare” for “to shoot” and the French “tirer” for “pull, draw the bow, shoot”, which however has nothing to do with it and is related to the German tug . Hence the word Sagittarius.
  • Mocking name of the schoolboys wandering around in the wake of the traveling schoolchildren ( scholars ) of the 14th and 15th centuries, who used to be sent out by those who started begging and stealing (in the boy's language “shooting”, hence “shooter”).

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Abc-Schützen  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: i-Dötzchen  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Duden Language Advice, Newsletter of September 22, 2006, Lemma Schulanfänger
  2. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon , Leipzig and Vienna 1888–1890, Lemma Abc-Schütze