Scoundrel
A scoundrel is a crook , rascal, or cheater. The word probably originated in the 16th century by mixing two independent borrowings from Slavic languages and found its way into literature in the 17th and 18th centuries .
etymology
The word scoundrel goes back to two names borrowed from both Slavic languages. The Silesian holomken , which was used to designate servants in the middle of the 15th century, is derived from the old Czech word holomek for a young man, a servant, but also a hangman, crook and deceiver. The East Central German Holunke denotes a city servant , messenger and hawker and is derived from the Upper Sorbian holank for a resident of the heather ( hola ). The basic meaning in both cases was "bald, naked, bare" ( holy ), Czech ( holý ), a quality that related on the one hand to the hairless scrotum of an immature man and on the other hand to the barren heathland. But probably borrowed from holomudec , actually " beardless ".
Others
Robert Moritz ("Halloren stories", 1904) spoke of Hallens, Halloren and scoundrels , which led to the current categorization of the inhabitants of Halle an der Saale . Halle residents were born in Halle, Halloren long-established Halle residents who are members of the Brotherhood of Saltworkers, and scoundrels all newcomers. In order to make a distinction from other scoundrels visually visible in the typeface, those who moved to Halle are often written as Hallunken .
Trivia
The actor Jürgen Vogel had the word scoundrel tattooed on his arm. As a reason he said: " Scoundrel is a great word that is threatened with extinction, and I felt it was my duty to prevent that."
See also
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- Wolfgang Pfeifer u. a .: Etymological dictionary of German . 6th edition, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-32511-9 .
- From Halloren, Hallensern and scoundrels. In: r-aktuell , employee newspaper of the Rahn Dittrich Group, III. Quarter 2006 ( PDF ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 3sat TV & Culture Magazine 2/2018, p. 14.