Horniness

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The adjective cool and the derived noun lust probably go to an Indo-European root ghoilo-s meaning "foaming, violent, high-spirited, playful, funny" back. In Old High German (since the 8th century), geil was used in the sense of "cocky", "arrogant". In Middle High German (since the 12th century) it stood for "powerful, willful, lush (rampant), funny, happy, happy or beautiful". Since the 15th century, horniness has primarily been used synonymously for or as an allusion to lust or sexual desire (cf. lust ). Luckiness and even more the adjective form geil are popular slang expressions in this context , but their use in official contexts is considered vulgar . The word mega- cool is a modern slang expression of geil .

Change of meaning

With horny (related to Middle High German horny , please 'and' Middle Low German Gilen , covet ', and Dutch gijlen , ferment' and Lithuanian gailas , violently ') are already since the 15th century, the vertically upstanding shoots designated by trees (see yellowing ). Geil is also used in the meanings “lustful”, “lustful” and “sexually aroused”.

Use for young people

In the 1970s and 1980s the word geil found increasing popularity in youth language and experienced a further change in meaning. Around the mid-1970s, the meaning of "sexually aroused" in colloquial usage initially expanded in the direction of "sexually attractive". In the 1980s, the term was increasingly expanded to include other areas and since then has expressed - as a colloquial increase of good - similar to cool, joyful sympathy or a positive, enthusiastic assessment, examples: "the great motorcycle", "a great concert ". With Geil, the duo Bruce & Bongo set a brand in 1986 that showed that the change in meaning had already arrived in the youth, but not yet in the older generations.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the word has almost completely lost its disreputable connotation . B. the song Geile Zeit from July clarifies.

As a result of this change in meaning, the word in the composition with sein is only occasionally used in the sense of “sexually aroused” when it refers to oneself (“I was horny all day today”). “You're so horny” nowadays no longer means that you find someone sexually attractive, but that you consider someone to be particularly extraordinary and to be enthusiastic about their personality (in a certain situation). In a purely sexual context, horny is now used less often with the auxiliary verb sein , but more often in the composition to become horny or make someone horny . With the auxiliary verb make the sexual meaning of horny is still clear and has not completely lost its disreputable connotation.

In colloquial language and especially in youth language, prefixes such as sau- , monkey- or end- are used to increase expressiveness. In addition, the rhetorical question "How cool is that [please]?" Has become a fixed phrase .

The positive and provocative use of the adjective geil and its popularity were used in a controversial advertising campaign from 2002 ; see greed is cool .

The Duden dictionary of meanings explains, in addition to the mostly derogatory meaning in the sense of sexual desire as a synonym for lustful and the colloquial and youth language meaning as an enthusiastic increase in good and the botanical meaning (long, but not very powerfully growing drive) cool in the The phrase is to be horny , which means something like "to be obsessed with something, to want something at any price". In this sense -geil is also often used as an adjectival pejorative suffix ( e.g. in power-horny , geldgeil , career- horny ).

See also

literature

  • "Geilheit" in Johann Heinrich Zedler, Carl Günther Ludovici: Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts, which bisshero were invented and improved through human understanding and wit, Volume 10. 1735, digitized (pp. 637-643) from the original: National Library of the Netherlands December 5, 2014
  • Christian von Wolff, Hasso Hofmann (Hrsg.): Reasonable thoughts of the social life of the people and in particular the common being: "German politics". Volume 13 of the Library of German State Thought. CHBeck 2004. ISBN 9783406522642 ( preview on Google Books p. 78 ff. )
  • Ingrid Schöll, Annette Kuhn, Jutta Dalhoff (ed.), Uschi Frey (ed.): Women's power in history. Volume 41 of Geschichtsdidaktik (1977): Studies, Materials. Schwann, 1986
  • Ferdinand Fellmann: The love code: key to the polarity of the sexes. Cape. VI: The discovery of lust, p. 159 ff. Parerga Verlag 2007. ISBN 9783937262741
  • Ulrike Klöppel: XX0XY unsolved: Hermaphroditism, sex and gender in German medicine. A historical study of intersexuality. transcript Verlag, 2015. ISBN 9783839413432 . ( Preview on Google Books p. 191 ff. )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge , Alfred Götze : Etymological dictionary of the German language . 20th ed., Ed. by Walther Mitzka , De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1967; Reprint (“21st unchanged edition”) ibid 1975, ISBN 3-11-005709-3 , p. 242.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Kluge, Alfred Götze (1975), p. 242.
  3. ↑ In Duden. The dictionary of origin from 2014 says under the keyword geil : "In today's parlance, 'geil' is mainly used in the sense of sexually aroused, fervid." Duden. The dictionary of origin. Etymology of the German language. 5th, revised edition. Dudenverlag, Berlin / Mannheim / Zurich 2014. ISBN 978-3-411-04075-9 .
  4. ^ Duden dictionary of meanings, 3rd edition, Dudenverlag, 2002.