Kantschu

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Kantschu with a stepped handle

The Kantschu (also Kantschuk and folk etymologically Kantschuh or Kandschuh , borrowed into German in all four forms in the 18th century via Polish kańczug or Czech kančuch from Turkish kamçı , in Russian, on the other hand, нага́йка , Nagaika ) is a widespread among oriental and Slavic peoples Leather braided strap whip , worn with a short handle or without a handle only on a loop around the wrist. In the German-speaking area she became known through travel reports and as an attribute of Russian Cossacks and officers, and her name was then also transferred to local punishment instruments in the penal system and education.

As a joking derivation from her name, Jean Paul also formed the verb kantschuhe “whip, mistreat”, which, however, has not found permanent entry into the German vocabulary.

Alternative Description

Peserik is an outdated term for the Kantschu.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herman Alfred Hirt: Etymology of the New High German Language. 2. verb. and presumably edition. Beck, Munich 1921, p. 145.
  2. ↑ Pellander (pseudonym): Thüringischer Robinson, That is: Robinson Baackers, a bored Thuringian, curieuse life description. Frankfurt / Leipzig 1737, p. 197: “50. Hiebe mit dem Kantschuh ”(as punishment of the executioner for his cruel treatment of one of the convicts of the“ Thorner Blutgergericht ”of 1724);
    Anonymous: The Russian incursion into the Brandenburg lands, and the Prussian victory at Zorndorf that followed. In: Michael Ranft (Ed.): New genealogical-historical news. Volume 112, Leipzig 1759, pp. 291–326, p. 296: "The district councilor from east to Burzen and the preachers to Wallachsee, Hasenfier and Wulflatzke were beaten half to death with khan shoes, just as the district councilor really died";
    Otto Bernhard Verdion: Life and special incidents of Peter Roberts, a bored angel country     . Dresden 1763, p. 113: "he trailed me with a kantschu that the sultry leaps on my back" (about the father of the protagonist);
    Anonymous: Letter from Petersburg dated March 1785 concerning the Russian army. In: Selection of small travelogues and other statistical and geographical news. Part VIII, Leipzig 1788, pp. 970–977, p. 977: "He [ie a Cossack] must not be punished with a stick or a thumb, which is considered degrading and disgraceful, but with a kind of sharp whip, who are called Kanchuk. "
  3. ^ Karl Steuerwald: Turkish-German Dictionary. 2. verb. and exp. Edition. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1988, p. 596, recorded as the first meaning for Kamçı "Fuhrmannspeitsche f " (longer than kırbaç )
  4. ↑ kantschuhe. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873, Sp. 176 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  5. ^ Theodor Fontane: My childhood years. Berlin 1894, p. 295: "... plaited Kantschu, which at that time - I don't know what linguistic reference was made to it - was called Peserik."