Meshugge
Meschugge is a loan word taken from Hebrew / Yiddish ( Yiddism ). It was adopted in the 19th century from Yiddish ( meschuggo for " crazy ") into German , which in turn came from the Hebrew word meschugga (משוגע), which means lehischtage`a (להשתגע, to be / become crazy). The Duden calls the use of the adjective as sloppy for “not in the right mind; insane".
Term establishment in German
In German usage, the word is also used as a weakened form of "crazy" or "overstretched". According to Christoph Gutknecht in the Jüdische Allgemeine , Leo Rosten's work Yiddish says : “The strong sibilance in the middle and the powerful 'ugg' form a convincing combination of sounds that has been popular in Berlin and other major cities since the 19th century to have". The New Berlin Schimpfwortbuch from 2005 quoted the example: "He makes me janz meschugge with his Jequatsche", which proves "that this is mostly a temporary condition."
Literary Uses
Ursula Homann wrote on literaturkritik.de in a review of Hans Peter Althaus on literary use : “An important area of application for meschugge has always been humorous literature, which was also popular with non-Jews. His late harvest Jewish purring and anecdotes knew Hans Ostwald 1928 entitled Fresh, healthy and bonkers . Paul Nikolaus said in 1924 that even the language can be meschugge . ”The term was used alongside the German lingua franca in German literature such as in Rafael Seligmann's novel Der Musterjude (1997), in which the mother of the protagonist Moische Bernstein redesigned one Denim store in disco style justified with the remark: "The goyim (non-Jews) love this meschuggene noise."
Individual evidence
- ↑ meschugge in duden.de (accessed on July 19, 2015).
- ↑ Christoph Gutknecht : Wortgeschichte (n) - Macke, Meise and Meschugge , Jüdische Allgemeine from January 12, 2012.
- ↑ Ursula Homann: Malocher who are not meschugge - Hans Peter Althaus examines Yiddisms in the German language , literaturkritik.de, No. 11 November 2002 (accessed on 20 July 2015).
