Haberdashery
Under haberdashery one understands small items for sewing . This includes buttons , threads , buckles , needles and zippers .
etymology
The term haberdashery (Swiss also Mercerie ) has developed from the older "short goods" ( 18th century ). The adjective “short” did not necessarily refer only to length, it could also be used in the sense of “small”.
Johann Christoph Adelung comments:
"Short commodities, small processed or manufactured things, considered as a commodity, e.g. B. wooden Spielgeräth, small iron goods u. s. f. "
The "short goods" were occasionally contrasted with the "long goods":
“Buy all sorts, buy all sorts,
buy long and short wares!
Six Kreuzer's piece is no money at all,
As it falls into your hands.
Buy a lot, buy a lot,
buy long and short wares! "
The German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm states:
"The / short / is probably proper. Which is not measured according to the yardstick, is not a / ellenwaare /, which then with the / long waare / should be meant."
"Short goods" are therefore that do not use the goods Elle be measured, no Elle goods , today so no goods at the meter , as is usually the materials but general cargo or bulk .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Christoph Adelung, Franz Leopold Schmiedel: Concise dictionary of the German language: according to JC Adelung's large dictionaries with regard to the language teaching of the kk normal and secondary schools, and for use by everyone, but especially for students, civil servants and other businessmen . Widow of the knight JG von Mösle, 1823, p. 449 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Tyroler . In: Karl Richter et al. (Ed.): The annual fair in Plundersweilern: A farce (= Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Complete works. ). tape 1.1 . btb Verlag, Chapter 1, p. 5–6 ( projekt-gutenberg.org - first edition: 1773).
- ↑ Brief 3) c) α) brief waare. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873, Sp. 2828 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).