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The term Popanz [ 'po: pants ] denotes a terrifying figure that should not be taken seriously.
Meaning and etymology
In pejorative terms , Popanz describes supposed or overestimated threats. It can also mean a person who “lets himself be used without will and lets anything be done to him”, but at the same time tries to create the impression of power and self-determination. Both the devil and the only saving (Catholic) Church were seen as bogus.
The etymology of the word is unclear, the Slavic origin is disputed. Popanz or Popenz (bogeyman, stuffed figure, straw doll) was detected in early Low German at the end of the 16th century. A linguistic connection to the old Czech bobonci , pobonci , Czech poboněk, paboněk, pabuněk for ghost is possible. A further development of the boboz ( bogeyman for children), which is widespread in German dialects and which is borrowed from the imitative-interjectional use ( bobo ) in children's language, is also being considered.
literature
- Duden - The dictionary of origin. Mannheim 1989, p. 541.
- Duden - The pronunciation dictionary. Mannheim 2005, p. 641.
- Ernst Wasserzieher : Where from? Derived dictionary of the German language , 17th edition, Bonn 1966, p. 337.
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Josef Lada : Bubáci a hastrmani a jiné pohádky . Prague 1939.
- German translation by Martin Schuster: Popanz and Immergrün and other crazy fairy tales . Verlag Sauerländer 1977, ISBN 3-7941-1567-8 .
- Peter Weiss : Singing from the Lusitan bogeyman . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1974. ISBN 978-3518007006 .
Web links
- Meanings and synonyms of Popanz (Duden)
- Moguls. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . 16 volumes in 32 sub-volumes, 1854–1960. S. Hirzel, Leipzig ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Conrad Füßlin: New and impartial church and heretic history of the middle ages .
- ↑ Sebald Brendel: Handbook of Catholic and Protestant Church Law (1840)
- ↑ NN (1823)
- ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer: Etymological Dictionary of German. online at DWDS