Face bay

Face bay is a joking name for the nose .

The word “Facial Bay” is often cited as a prime example of unsuccessful Germanization . However, we do not know of any language purist who would have seriously suggested replacing "nose" with "face oriel". Philipp von Zesen or Joachim Heinrich Campe are usually named as the alleged originator, although the word “Facial Bay” has not yet been found in their works. The invention of the word at the end of the 18th century is also possible to make fun of attempts at Germanization by the language purists ("assassination buffer" for pistol).

A committed language purist might not be satisfied with this attempt at Germanization anyway, because Erker is not an originally German word, but a loan word from French. In contrast, nose is - despite the similarity to the Latin form nasus - an inherited word . So a German word would have been replaced by a (partially) foreign word.

See also

• German language purism

literature

• Bodo Mrozek : Lexicon of threatened words. Volume II . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-62193-2 , p. 55 (keyword: face bay ).

Web links

Wiktionary: Facial markers  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alan Kirkness: On language cleaning in German 1789–1871. A historical documentation. Part I. Narr, Tübingen 1975, ISBN 3-87808-626-1 , p. 41.
2. ↑ Kluge. Etymological dictionary of the German language. Edited by Elmar Seebold . 24th, revised and expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-017473-1 (keywords: bay window , nose ).