Junk
Ramsch means something like “inferior rejects, thrown goods, bulk goods, worthless stuff.” Most dictionaries mark the word as slang .
etymology
The origin of the word “junk” is uncertain; it has been used in its current meaning since the middle of the 19th century. Apparently, it is a borrowing of the French ramas “ gathering up , picking up, heaps of worthless things, junk” (to the verb ramasser “collecting, gathering up”); In any case, this word is the basis of the name of the Ramsch, Rams or Rammes card game played mainly in southern Germany and Switzerland, in which the player wins who does not collect the highest, but the fewest eyes.
The commercial expression meaning "inferior goods" may have arisen from a mixture of this French expression with native words; On the one hand, a derivation of or mixing with Rotwelsch (be) ramish “cheat” is discussed , which in turn is in Hebrew רָמָאוּת( rammāʾūþ ) “Fraud” goes back, on the other hand a connection with the Middle Low German idiom in the rampe kōpen “buy in whole, in bulk .” Alfred Schirmer noted in 1911 in his dictionary of the German merchant language on the one hand that the word was mainly used in northern Germany is common (which suggests a Low German origin), but on the other hand also noted that it is “mostly perceived as Jewish today”.
Junkies, junk stores, junk bonds
The derivation ramschen denotes the "cheap buying up of junk goods "; sell off again "sell at a knockdown price." A junk shop or junk bazaar is a shop in which - supposedly or actually - inferior goods are sold. In the course of the desolation of the inner cities, shops that take over empty shops from formerly established retail stores and whose range is viewed as comparatively inferior are also given this name. The entire word field has a negative connotation and is generally not used by companies to describe themselves. In the 1990s, however, the German entrepreneur Werner Metzen was dubbed the junk king in the media and in his son's biography .
In bookstores , the term sell off used internally when parts of a book holder no longer the book prices are subject. This primarily relates to the remaining stocks of a print run, the sales of which have fallen sharply or have fallen below what is usually contractually agreed from the start. All rights of use are reverted to the author on the date specified by the publisher for a sale . Offers from returns and (sometimes intentionally for this purpose) damaged books, so-called defective copies , may also deviate from the fixed retail price . The distribution of such mostly very much cheaper book titles without fixed book prices is euphemistically referred to as modern antiquarian bookshop .
In recent times, the word junk has been used again and again by serious media in connection with the credit ratings of rating agencies and translated in this context into English junk (" scrap "); a junk bond ( junk bond ) is a bond with a high bond interest, but all higher credit risk.
Synonyms
In the same or similar meaning as junk are in the German stuff clutter, junk, trinkets , Tinnef and Nippes needed.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ So in particular Marlies Philippa among others: Etymologically Woordenboek van het Nederlands . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2003–2009, sv ramsj (ongeregelde handel, goederen tegen verlaagde prijs)
- ↑ Trash. In: Alfred Götze (Hrsg.): Trübner's German dictionary. Volume 5: O-R. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, p. 287.
- ↑ Trash. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . The information provided there on the etymology is identical to the text of the article Ramsch in Wolfgang Pfeifer : Etymological Dictionary of German. 2nd Edition. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993.
- ↑ Trash. In: Friedrich Kluge , Elmar Seebold : Etymological dictionary of the German language. 25th, updated and expanded edition. (E-book), Berlin a. a. 2012.
- ↑ Trash. In: Alfred Schirmer: Dictionary of the German business language on historical bases. Trübner, Strasbourg 1911, pp. 153–154. (Reprint: Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1991).