Techtelmechtel
In colloquial terms, a quackery is a more or less secret love affair. Techtelmechtel is also known as "Gspusi" in Austrian and South German . The word Gspusi is related to the Italian word sposi , betrothed, married couple.
In general, such a love relationship is assumed to be of little seriousness. In Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wanders German Proverbs Lexicon of 1876, the phrase "Das is a Techt'lmecht'l" is used as an "appointment of two or more people to carry out an action, including a mutually beneficial, otherwise detrimental agreement" described.
etymology
The term penetrated the southern German area from the Austrian-speaking area in the 19th century . The word probably developed from Red Welschen or Yiddish . It is a rhyming word, consisting of the word tacht (i) = secretly, secretly, which is repeated with slight variations. The origin of the Italian teco-meco (me with you, you with me), presumed in numerous reference works, is not certain. There is no evidence of a Hebrew origin suspected by Paul Elbogen .
See also
Web links
- From Ave to Zores. Hebrew and Semitic words in our language. Siegfried Kreuzer, Wuppertal (PDF; 214 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Sedlaczek : Austrian for Beginners. ISBN 9783903083615 p. 31.
- ↑ "Techt'lmecht'l" on Zeno.org
- ↑ dtv -Lexikon from 1977, Volume 18, page 150; Knaur's Dictionary, Munich 1985, page 947.
- ↑ Christoph Gutknecht: From quarrel to affair. How the "affair" became a synonym for love affair. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . May 14, 2015, accessed September 17, 2018 .