Chair seat
Stuhlsasse is a term used in the oldest German legal language and describes the judge, lay judge or owner of a court office who are "sitting on the chair". Evidence for the word begins in the Lombard and Alemannic regions with the Edictum Rothari from the year 643, the oldest corpus of German words, and in Switzerland goes back to the 16th century. Then the word is lost as a legal term, but is still used in proper names to the present day. This is associated with the peculiarity that the word has been used in German language history for a comparatively long period of time.
In the manuscripts of the Edictum Rothari , 'stolesazo' (chair seat) shows next to 'sculdhais' ( mayor ), 'iderzon' ( Etterzaun ) and 'walopaus' (violent blow / masking) the high German sound shift / t / → / z / or / ts /. The Edictum Rothari thus provides a terminus ante quem for the dating of this sound shift.
The word is still preserved in the family name "Stuhlsatz", the name of a family who immigrated from Sulz in Upper Alsace to Differten in Saarland in 1715 , and in the name of Stuhlsatzenhaus , a restaurant in the forest near Saarbrücken , which is named after the family from Differten.
literature
- Chair seat, m. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 20 : Strom – Szische - (X, 4th section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1942 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).