Clothes
Klamotte originally referred to colloquially broken walls and bricks , but also (natural) rocks. After the Second World War from rubble resulting rubble mountains "were in various German cities Mont Klamott " called, for example in Berlin of the Great Bunkerberg .
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The term clothes was also extended to other broken or worthless objects, especially as the plural term clothes for poor furniture or old clothes. The latter use became today's colloquial term for clothing, often without negative connotation ("chic clothes").
Especially in the singular , Klamotte describes an outdated play or a rough swank without a special intellectual level, initially in the theater, later also in film and television. So one wore in the 1970s slapstick -silent films from US -Sendereihe revised old title fathers of oldies .
The exact origin of the word is unknown, an origin from the " crooks language " is assumed.
It is believed that clothes spread from Berlin in the first half of the 20th century. The origin of the Berlin crooks language around 1900 has not been proven and connections to the Czech klamol 'fragment', to Schamott , the Rotwelschen Klabot 'clothing' or the Yiddish k'le umonos 'handicraft device ' are unsecured.
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- ↑ a b c according to Duden "Etymologie" - dictionary of origin of the German language . 2nd Edition. Dudenverlag, 1989
- ↑ Bernd Stöver: History of Berlin . CH Beck, 2010, p. 66, online on Google books
- ↑ Klamotte, published on duden.de, accessed on October 21, 2011
- ↑ a b Pfeifer: Etymological dictionary of German . Clothes. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved October 4, 2019