Gurre

Gurre is an Old High German term for a single female horse that has disappeared to the last in today's German .

Even in Old and Middle High German, “stuot” ( mare ) referred to a herd of female horses. Only at the beginning of the 15th century did the term mare gain its current meaning.

Occurrence

A white gurre on a red background has adorned the coat of arms since around 1200, when imperial knights possibly named Gurre were given the former imperial county of Haag . It is unclear whether the members of the family were referred to later as cooing because of the coat of arms or whether the name of the sex caused the image of a gurre. When the last Gurre died in 1245 without male descendants, Emperor Friedrich II transferred the county to the knight Sigfrid von Fraunberg, who was married to Elisabeth Gurre. The gurre in the coat of arms of the Hague counts remains under the Fraunbergers .

In the coat of arms of the district of Erding , established in 1953 , a red, gold- reinforced Hague Gurre appears on a white background with a rising tail ( according to heraldic norms).

In the Bavarian and Austrian pejorative " Bissgurn " (often translated into High German: Bissgurke) the word is still alive and in use today, meaning as much as mare-biting person (see below Schmeller).

The entry Gurre in the Economic Encyclopedia by Johann Georg Krünitz (1773-1858) reads:

"Gurre, (who) in the g. L. a designation of a mare of poor and bad kind, and of every bad horse in general, which one probably also usually calls a mare.
In some dialects this word is Gorre, in Meklenburg. Zorre, in Ireland Garron, all in the meaning of a bad horse. Perhaps from the coo, coo, or growl of the belly of those old unfit horses. In old French, Gorre was a name for an old pig for a similar reason, and Gorret, a young pig. "

The entry in the Bavarian dictionary by Johann Andreas Schmeller (Munich, 1872) reads:

“The coo, coo, bad mare; dissolute woman. The bite coo, (in mockery) the contentious woman (Houses); Gurg'n, Bissgurg'n (bW). The Gorre, (Aschaff.) Tall, clumsy woman. "Quite a few old gurra nescit pr. No." (pater noster); Amb. 3, f. 181? Firmenich II, 468,78: Gürrle, frivolous wench. s. Cow. W. Grimm, on Freidank p. 80. "'s Dähkalb habms · hingöb · n, stands d · Gurren ällain", Lindermayr 165. "Nim dä' s example of our cooing, chops mä 's · z · often äfi, that's how mä' s · nah ' wild ", the 148th" goer, gorre, een oud versleten paerd "; belg. Mus. II, 105. Vilmar, kurhess. Idiot. 141. Journal. II, 318.2. III, 189.42. IV, 169, 194, 282.44. 307. V, 437. "Gelich den lamen coo", Labr. 89. "I stood by it and read the cooing leagues", Balkn. 120. (see MB. XIV, 48. Hund's Stammbuch I, p. 120). When gur and gaul kumbt ", Putherbey. Bey Br. Berht. Stands gurre as masc .:" Alter gurre requires wol fueters. "Voc. V. 1429:" gurr, runcinus, vilis equus. "
The Spilgurr, (Nürnb., Hsl.) Passionate player. "Then I would be a Trunckenbolz, a Spilgurr or Lotter even", H. Sachs . Spilgurgel at Selhamer. "

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gurre. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 9 : Greander gymnastics - (IV, 1st section, part 6). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1935 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
2. ↑ Economic Encyclopedia by Johann Georg Krünitz
3. ↑ Bavarian Dictionary by Andreas Schmeller , Volume 1, p. 932 f.