loophole

A loophole is, in the narrower sense, a passage or place through which one can only get out or into which one can only get by bending the body, often only by dragging the body along the walls or the ceiling.

Loophole at the end of the tower stairs

In the broader or figurative sense, it is also a possibility for humans or animals to just escape a danger, unpleasant situation, personal disadvantage, etc. (e.g. “slip through the mesh of the law”, “find a loophole in the law "," Find / close tax loopholes ", keep loopholes open, etc.).

Openings of otherwise closed bird nests and nesting boxes are also referred to as loopholes . In literary terms, "dramaturgical loopholes" are also used for apparently hopeless situations in order to create tension.

Derivation

According to Johann Christoph Adelung, the term loophole is “a hole, an opening in and through which one can only slip. Same, figurative, a place through which one can escape in a hidden way, the same where one can hide ”.

The hiding place is therefore related to this. According to Adelung “a corner in which one slips, i. i. goes in an unnoticed way. In a broader sense, any hidden place in which one hides for harmful or evil intentions. ”The term“ loophole ”is however often also used in the sense of“ hiding place ”(e.g. in the sense of refuge , refuge , hiding place , Shelter , refuge, refuge, place of refuge, safe haven, etc., “to withdraw into one's loophole”). The poet Karl Griesheim in the quatrain escape :

" In front of the misery you, friend, look for a loophole happily sheltering you, you look for it in vain around the world, you can't escape yourself. "

also calls the loophole synonymous with hiding place.

The terms:

Slip off,
Slip through,
Slipping on (e.g. into a coat),
Slipper,
Silt,
Slip (friction),
Hatching (in the sense of "hatching"),
Loophole, lair,
Postern , wicket ,
Slip , slipway , slipping (shipping)

it has in common that it is an “ Intensivum of slept”, and “[…] instead of it also common in High German, but because of the intense form requires a narrower opening, more writhing effort and greater smoothness or flexibility of the body; to wind through a narrow opening with a smooth or flexible body, because it is often used in a wider sense for crawling quickly or sneaking quickly ”.

Slip / slip / slippery see also: germ .: to slip (slip), .: Nieders in sloops , schwed .: slipa (grinding), Dutch .: slippen (slip). In the form of movement, hatching differs from dragging crawling in that normal posture (e.g. slip through a fence, slip out of a hole, slip out of the nest, etc.) or standing (e.g. into one Hatching coat) is not changed very much (exception: hatching from the egg).

Loophole in the Bible and the Koran

In the Bible there are several references to loopholes and hiding places (in the sense of shelter, refuge), which were created or used in times of need. In a similar sense, loopholes / corners etc. are also mentioned in the Koran .

literature

In addition to the various articles in books and magazines on legal loopholes (in particular tax loopholes and black money / money laundering ), two essential literary contributions and a film on the topic of "loophole" are worth mentioning:

Hermann Wollschläger: Field mouse is looking for her loophole: a pastor is experiencing the war . 2nd Edition. Aussaat-Verlag, Wuppertal 1979, ISBN 3-7615-0229-X .
Vladimir Makanin (from the Russian by Karen Görnitz): The Loophole . Neuer Malik-Verlag, Kiel 1991, ISBN 3-89029-063-9 .
Stephan Brandt: Loophole "Aviation Weather Station". Subterra-Medien-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-00-011751-2 (film)
Fritz Rienecker, Gerhard Maier: Lexicon for the Bible (more than 6000 key words on people, history, archeology and geography of the Bible) . 6th edition. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 978-3-417-24678-0 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Loophole - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

↑ Johan Abraham Bierens de Haan: The animal instincts and their transformation through experience: an introduction to general animal psychology . Brill, Leyden 1940, p. 220.
^ Gerhard Augst: Word family dictionary of contemporary German . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, p. 945.
↑ Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Edition Vienna 1811, Sp. 1545–1546 ( online ).
↑ Lt. Ennobling schools, hiding.
^ Poems by Karl Griesheim, first volume, Breslau 1839, published by Josef Max S. Comp.
↑ According to Adelung: “ Slip away from something, slip away unnoticed. So that the tape doesn't slip off. "
↑ According to Adelung, “a word common only in common life to designate a narrow path or place through which one has to slip, as it were. The narrow space between two houses, which, as far as it is placed to keep the fire away, is also called the fire alley, is so called. Note. It is presumably from hatching. "
↑ According to Adelung, “Bey den Jäger, a narrow place through which an animal takes its usual course; where it comes from sleeping, and is one with the following silt. 2) By the potters, a yellow clay, which is surrounded by a lot of sand, is called silt; where it presumably belongs to sleep and his relatives, and seems to have the concept of the tough, greasy texture. "
↑ Johann Christoph Adelung in “Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect”, Vienna 1811 edition, on the term “slip” ( online ).
↑ Example: Judges 6: 2 " And when the hand of the Midianites became too strong over Israel, the children of Israel made hiding places in the mountains, caves and castles to protect them from the Midianites " (different translations with different terms ) - see: Fritz Rienecker, Gerhard Maier: Lexicon for the Bible (more than 6000 key words on people, history, archeology and geography of the Bible) . 6th edition. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 978-3-417-24678-0 .
↑ For example sura 9, verse 57 - "[...] find refuge or caves or a loophole [...]" and sura 16 verse 81 - "[...] nooks and crannies in the mountains [...]".

[1] Johan Abraham Bierens de Haan: The animal instincts and their transformation through experience: an introduction to general animal psychology . Brill, Leyden 1940, p. 220.

[2] Gerhard Augst: Word family dictionary of contemporary German . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, p. 945.

[3] Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Edition Vienna 1811, Sp. 1545–1546 ( online ).

[4] Lt. Ennobling schools, hiding.

[5] Poems by Karl Griesheim, first volume, Breslau 1839, published by Josef Max S. Comp.

[6] According to Adelung: “ Slip away from something, slip away unnoticed. So that the tape doesn't slip off. "

[7] According to Adelung, “a word common only in common life to designate a narrow path or place through which one has to slip, as it were. The narrow space between two houses, which, as far as it is placed to keep the fire away, is also called the fire alley, is so called. Note. It is presumably from hatching. "

[8] According to Adelung, “Bey den Jäger, a narrow place through which an animal takes its usual course; where it comes from sleeping, and is one with the following silt. 2) By the potters, a yellow clay, which is surrounded by a lot of sand, is called silt; where it presumably belongs to sleep and his relatives, and seems to have the concept of the tough, greasy texture. "

[9] Johann Christoph Adelung in “Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect”, Vienna 1811 edition, on the term “slip” ( online ).

[10] Example: Judges 6: 2 " And when the hand of the Midianites became too strong over Israel, the children of Israel made hiding places in the mountains, caves and castles to protect them from the Midianites " (different translations with different terms ) - see: Fritz Rienecker, Gerhard Maier: Lexicon for the Bible (more than 6000 key words on people, history, archeology and geography of the Bible) . 6th edition. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 978-3-417-24678-0 .

[11] For example sura 9, verse 57 - "[...] find refuge or caves or a loophole [...]" and sura 16 verse 81 - "[...] nooks and crannies in the mountains [...]".