Half dachshund
Half-dachshund is a swear word that is to be understood as an increase in the content of the swear word dachshund ("stupid," stupid, clumsy person ") in the sense of" worse than dachshund "and, like the uneven form, comes from the Württemberg core area of Swabian . Depending on the situational context, it serves as an expression of compassionate disregard or as an insulting swear word.
origin
While Dachshund is attested as an insult since the 18th century and numerous derivatives ( dackelig , dachshund way , dackelhäftig , dachshund standard , Dackelhaftigkeit ) and other enhancement options ( omnipotence dachshund , E [he] dachshund , grass Dachshund , (in the Swabian and meadow [n] wallerand ) Heudackel , Saudackel ) and the diminutive dachshund (compassionate for "feeble-minded child"), the increased variant half dachshund has only recently been lexicographically recorded. The word has been used since the end of the 19th century at the latest and was also put on record in the Württemberg state parliament in 1906 when the " auxiliary school system for the weakly gifted" was being discussed there and in this context an expert reported that the auxiliary school was popularly disparaged as the "school for half dachshunds "Or" Dachshund School ".
Quotes
"A half dachshund is decidedly heavier than a whole."
“The fact that the dachshund is recognized as a clever little animal does not in the least prevent the speaker from using his name as a symbol of stupidity. Sometimes it even goes up to the superlative "half-dachshund!" Yes, superlative, because the half-dachshund does not mean a lesser degree of stupidity, but an increase. "
Web links
- Sample analysis ID 0.05 (PDF file; 22 kB) on www.alternativ-grammatik.de, p. 5 with an explanation of “half” in increasing meaning
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hermann Fischer / Hermann Taigel, Swabian Concise Dictionary , 3rd exp. Aufl., Laupp / Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, p. 219 sv "Halb-dackel", cf. P. 481 sv "Blödsinniger", p. 192 sv "Dachshund"
- ↑ a b c d Hermann Fischer, Swabian Dictionary , Volume II, Laupp, Tübingen 1908, Sp. 11f. sv "dachshund"
- ^ Union of the German Academies of Sciences: Tool Language . Georg Olms Verlag , Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-487-10773-2 , p. 124 .
- ↑ Wiese-Walle equals Gras-Dachshund , Stuttgarter Nachrichten of May 15, 2013
- ^ Hermann Fischer / Hermann Taigel, Swabian Concise Dictionary , 3rd exp. Ed., Laupp / Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, p. 28 sv “Allmachts-”, p. 128 sv “E-dackel”, p. 208 sv “Gras-dackel”, p. 235 sv “Heu-dackel”, P. 358 "Pig dachshund"
- ↑ "If someone, like him, has ideal thoughts and sees 'half dachshunds' in front of you, you have to become insane": on April 18, 1897, when a patient was admitted to the Tübingen psychiatry, he wrote the expression for those who, from his point of view, were mentally poor People from his family environment used, reproduced by R. Meyer, contribution to the knowledge of acute psychoses and catatonic states , in: Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 32 (1899), pp. 780-902, p. 824
- ^ Negotiations of the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies in the 36th Landtag in 1904/1906 , Protocol Volume VII, Königliche Hofdruckerei zu Gutenberg (Carl Grüninger), 1906, p. 4669b (201st session, October 23, 1906): " Unfortunately, I have to bring to your knowledge a name which is admittedly not entirely appropriate, but which expresses the people's judgment of these schools quite succinctly. In some places it is said that it is a school for half dachshunds, from another area where such schools have also been established, I was told that they are called 'dachshund schools'. "
- ^ Sebastian Blau [di Josef Eberle]: Schwäbisch , R. Piper & Co., Munich 1936 (series What is not in the dictionary ), p. 58
- ↑ Hermann Strehle, On the Secret of Language. Linguistic expression theory - linguistic psychology , Reinhart, Munich / Basel 1956, p. 135