Walstatt

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Word meaning

Walstatt (later subsidiary form Walstätte ): "Battlefield, Kampfstätte , Richtstätte" is "a combination [of instead of " Ort, Platz , stelle "] with whale that has existed since the middle of the 12th century , in which the word is still its original Meaning shows, so actually corpse field ", d. H. “'Battlefield covered by corpses' or even 'place where there was fighting'”. "Since Wal [themselves!] But then as a battlefield is taken, the composition [appears battlefield ] as a tautological and eventually supplanted the simple word [ whale ]."

Word history of whale

Whale as the first component of Walstatt goes back to an unreconstructed ancient Germanic word root , which is available in slightly different forms in the individual ancient Germanic languages. When the primitive Germanic is split up , there are also differences in the meaning of the word. The following are documented in detail:

• in Old Norse valr "the slain on the battlefield", compare also: Valhalla "whereabouts of those who fell in battle" and Valkyrie "the voter of the dead who, according to the Edda, has the task of escorting the warriors who have fallen in battle to Odin ".,
• in Anglo-Saxon wæl "the slain, even a single dead, and more abstract defeat, slaughter",
• in Old Saxon wal in waldâd "deadly deed, murder"
• In Old High German , the sources give the meaning of wal in Latin strages , ie “ sinking down, falling down , collapsing, collapsing, desolation; the mass of objects that have fallen to the ground ”.

After reviewing all sources, the German dictionary comes to the conclusion: “The abstract meaning [the root of the word] still preserved in the ags. [Anglo-Saxon] is to be assumed, from which the (in anord. [Old Norse] already exclusively valid) Collective of developed the slain . "

Further development

The word Walstatt for battlefield remained alive into the 19th century (e.g. with Nikolaus Lenau ); today it seems rather artificial.

The word whale was already out of date in the 16th century and has hardly been used since then; in more recent times, however, it can be found again occasionally (among others with Joseph Görres , Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and especially with Richard Wagner under the influence of Old Norse valr ). The German dictionary takes a critical view of Richard Wagner's connection with elect .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In all quotations from the German dictionary , unlike the source, all New High German nouns were capitalized
2. ↑ Walstatt ... whale place. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922, Sp. 1367–1368 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Walstatt. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922, Sp. 1360-1367 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Wal. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922, Sp. 1063-1068 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
5. ↑ Valhalla. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922, Sp. 1241-1242 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
6. ↑ Valkyrie. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922, Sp. 1255–1256 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
7. ^ Karl Ernst Georges: Comprehensive Latin-German concise dictionary. 1913/1918 ( zeno.org ).