Mouth dead
The adjective silenced ( compound from mouth and dead ) in colloquial German nurmehr in the phrase make someone gag , "someone silenced, bringing silence," in use which can be traced back to the 19th century.
Before and originally called Mundtod in the earlier German legal language, however, the withdrawal of capacity (or maturity) due to extravagance ; this word usage has been attested since the middle of the 16th century.
literature
- mouth dead . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 9 , issue 7/8 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-7400-0982-9 , Sp. 996-997 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
Web links
- mouth dead. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . (The information there on the etymology corresponds to the entry mundtot In: Wolfgang Pfeifer : Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , 2nd edition. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993.)