fuck
The word birds is a colloquial than casually up, vulgar classified term for sexual intercourse ", similar to the vulgar verb fuck ".
origin
The word comes from Middle High German and also referred to the process of mating, whereby it was actually applied to mating in birds and only later transferred to humans. According to the Duden. The German universal dictionary comes from the Middle High German form vogelen / fogelen " mating (vom Vogel); To catch birds ”, which in turn comes from the Old High German fogalōn “ to catch birds ”. In the German dictionary by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm , “vögeln” was also used to mean “to catch a bird” as well as to “mate”, first with birds (chickens) and later with people. Here it developed into an allusion to a phallic meaning of birds, which was expressed, for example, in the expression “hold a bird” for “hold a penis”. At Neidhart , too , a bird symbolizes the male limb: "I waen he ir ze love has pushed his red bird into the same kliebe".
According to Friedrich Kluge , the word since the 15th century in the Early New High German forms vogelen and voglen testified. Presumably it belongs to the same basis as fuck - from the (not verifiable but reconstructed) Germanic roots * fug- or * fukk- = "(again and again) to push". The word was related to bird very early on , so that in earlier times it was only used in relation to birds, especially chickens . Heinrich I , Duke of the Saxons since 912 and King in Eastern Franconia from 919-936, was catching birds when he was offered the royal crown - therefore he went down in history as "the bird" or "the finch". So at the beginning of the 10th century the word had no sexual interpretation.
Another alternative origin is the verb fegeln or vegeln , which was used as an iterative of the word sweeping and, in addition to being used for cleaning or sweeping , could also mean rubbing or wiping with short, rapid movements . In this case, the further development of fucking would be a euphemistic and phonetic adjustment.
Popular usage and in literature
The verb “to bird” is popularly used. A proverb from Wolfenbüttel says:
"No nobleman shaggles so precisely, that no hair comes in."
It is also often used more or less clearly in the literature. A well-known representative of this is the late medieval poet Oswald von Wolkenstein . A text example that does not use the verb directly, but vividly illustrates the connection between bird hunting, phallic meanings of bird expressions and eroticism, reads in the New High German poetry by the Tyrolean Germanist Hans Moser :
“When the bird catching
and bait begins , the trap is ready,
then you can hear sweet lure singing
and a lot of puffing in a short time.
The beautiful one has easy singing:
she steals every skill of
the bird
art from me like in play her pinch stick drives it so far
that the bullfinch wants it too often,
the hut comes to the clink
of these things. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe used the term many times, for example in Hanswurst's wedding :
"And in the back I come at night
and fuck her, it all cracks."
Gottfried August Bürger wrote the following verse in a note to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg :
"If, apart from the ideal of the highest rules of lust,
you can't fuck anyone, you can't fuck anyone ."
The term is also used figuratively in music, for example in additional stanzas to the song Die Vogelhochzeit or in the Magic Flute .
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ Entry "birds". duden.de, accessed on December 6, 2015 .
- ^ Rudolf J. Slaby, Rudolf Grossmann: Dictionary of the Spanish and German languages. Volume 1: Spanish – German. Verlag Oscar Brandstetter, Wiesbaden 1975/1989, (2012 ISBN 978-3-87097-245-5 ), p. 669; quoted from Rufus Gouws (ed.): dictionaries / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography 3rd part, e-book, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, p. 2799 ( books.google.at ).
- ↑ a b c d Keyword "birds" in Pschyrembel dictionary of sexuality. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-016965-7 , pp. 577-578.
- ↑ Duden, German Universal Dictionary. 6th, revised and expanded edition, Dudenverlag, Mannheim [ua] 2006, ISBN 3-411-05506-5 , p. 1853 (quoted from Wiktionary ).
- ↑ a b birds, birds 4). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 26 : Vesche – Vulkanisch - (XII, 2nd section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1951, Sp. 432-433 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Carl von Kraus: The Minnesang's Spring. 30th edition Leipzig 1950, p. 51.
- ↑ Karl Otto Sauerbeck: 'Herr Heinrich sat at the Vogelherd'. Observations on medieval bird hunting and its symbolism. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 10, 2014, pp. 57–79, here: p. 77.
- ^ Friedrich Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language. 24th edition (edited by Elmar Seebold), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-11-017473-1 , p. 962.
- ↑ Keyword “ vogeln ” in the digital dictionary of the German language on dwds.de; accessed on September 6, 2017.
- ↑ Keyword “to fuck. “In: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander (Hrsg.): German Proverbs Lexicon. Volume 4. Leipzig 1876, Sp. 1672.
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↑ Hans Moser : As light as a feather. Oswald von Wolkenstein - songs and adaptations. Innsbruck 2012, p. 77 f.
quoted from: Wolfgang Mayr and Robert Sedlaczek : Die Kulturgeschichte des Tarockspiels. Stories about tarot and its famous players. Edition Atelier, Vienna 2015. - ↑ Ticket to Lichtenberg (PDF; 33 kB).