Hiding place

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The hiding place is a place where something is hidden or where someone is hiding. The word hide comes from Low German , derived from Middle Low German vorstecke , which means something like secrecy , ulterior motive . For example, an ambush is also referred to as a hiding place from which someone lurks.

etymology

The verb hide for 'to hide' was formed in the 16th century; see. ahd. fire plug 'clog' (13th century), mhd. hide 'make suffocate'; the noun hiding place for 'secret storage place' was changed in the 18th century from the mnd. especially in the Seemannssprache used projecting corner Ambush, secret intention 'is formed.

use

The word is used differently, but was originally used primarily as a synonym for ambush in military language. The grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect by Johann Christoph Adelung wrote in 1801:

“The Verstêck, des -es, plur. inusit. a word used only in common life for hiding. The children play hide and seek when they hide. It is also used in the art of war , both on water and on land, where troops and warships hide when they lie in ambush. "

- Adelung : Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect

The German dictionary points out that hiding was first introduced into the written language from North German in the 18th century and was initially common for naval wars. In the oldest place where the word can be proven, it already shows the derived meaning ' deceit , secret intention': sunder vorstecke unde argelist . Adelung only knows it as a term used in common life for hiding in children's games, besides the term used for warfare. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, the term appeared for the first time in literature, and early on in the scientific language of animal observation such as: "The antelopes and wild pigs tend to lie in wait behind a hideout". The meanings as a place of refuge and as a secret repository are more extensive and in part more recent .

In this sense, the word was also used for the hiding of refugees and for the granting of refuge to Jews under National Socialism. People who hid Jews with themselves or helped them to get to a hiding place were later also called the saviors of the Jews .

If someone takes on a "life in hiding" or under a false identity, one also speaks of hiding. It can be, for example, fleeing legal proceedings or running away from home to a women's or men's house .

In military parlance, a camouflaged bivouac serves as a hiding place for soldiers to rest away from enemy forces and their lines of movement, and is created in hunting combat and during survival and penetration .

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hideout . In: duden.de; accessed on August 30, 2014
  2. ↑ Ambush. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved August 13, 2019
  3. ↑ Hideout. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved August 13, 2019
  4. ↑ Hideout . In: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 4., reworked. and greatly increased edition, Volume 18:  Türkisches Reich – Wechsler , self-published, Altenburg 1864, p.  522 .
  5. ↑ Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect . Volume 4. Leipzig 1801, p. 1149 .; zeno.org
  6. ↑ Hideout. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . 16 volumes in 32 sub-volumes, 1854–1960. S. Hirzel, Leipzig ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).