Tschitschering green

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"Tschitscheringrüner" Trabant 601

As Tschitscheringrün is known colloquially different "indefinable" greens .

Since the hue is not precisely defined, the name is used for all possible more or less green hues. Occasionally it is used to designate other color tones that cannot be defined more precisely. The word was particularly widespread in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon and Berlin-speaking regions . In the GDR, for example, the term was used for the color of the light green Trabant and for the color of the uniforms of Russian soldiers.

According to popular belief, the name goes back to the Russian politician Georgi Wassiljewitsch Tschitscherin , who is said to have worn a striking suit with an unusual color when the Rapallo Treaty was signed in 1922 . This is wrong, however, because the term was mentioned in a collection of dialect expressions from Thuringia as early as 1895 and is traced back to the Italian word ciceri (= chickpea , pronunciation: 'tschitscheri').

In 2010, the word "Jijoriengrien" was chosen as the most threatened word of the year as part of the Saxon Word of the Year award .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doreen Kirschke: Who or what is Tschitscheringrün? , Sächsische Zeitung, March 29, 2001, p. 14
  2. ^ A b Ludwig Hertel: Thüringer Sprachschatz: Collection of dialect expressions from Thuringia. Verlag H. Böhlaus Successor, 1895, p. 248. ( Online )
  3. ^ Der Sprachdienst Volumes 26-27, Society for German Language, 1982, p. 26. ( Online )
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Brandt: Joke with a gun. P. 14 ( online )
  5. ^ Hermann Eberhart: Wertingen: 1910-1950. Verlag Stadt Wertingen, 2001, p. 147.
  6. ↑ Peter Ufer: The Haderlump kicks off bombastic. In: Sächsische Zeitung, October 4, 2011 ( online )