Tomboy

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As a tomboy who is originally general hunting or specifically the capture of a wild animal called, which also derived the captured wild animal. These uses of the word are still in use today, sometimes with a different meaning.

In a figurative sense, a very lively child or girl or even a very lively animal is referred to as a "wild caught". For girls with boyish behavior, see also Tomboy .

Today's meanings

activities

  • Hunting (killing or catching game by humans) - a rare meaning today
  • Capture of all kinds of live wild animals (wild animals) for various purposes, e.g. B. Supplies for the pet trade or research
  • "Natural" fishing or catching shrimp - in contrast to keeping in aquaculture ("wild-caught fish", "wild-caught shrimp")
  • Hunting or killing a prey by a predator ("a wolf caught in the wild")

Wildlife

  • a wild animal caught alive for keeping in human hands
  • specifically a bird of prey or falcon that has been caught for the hunt
  • Fish products or shrimp from traditional fishing ("wild catch on offer")

"Wild" children and animals

  • a "wild" (very lively) child or a "wild" (very lively) adolescent - with a tendency to predominantly refer to lively girls
  • an animal with an irrepressible urge to move or play (e.g. young dogs or horses)

Legal term in the Middle Ages

In medieval and early modern legal language, a tomboy is a person without his own body owner , who moved from another area and who therefore became the serf of the local lord . For a regional example see wild catch law .

Etymology and development of meaning

Wild catch comes from the late Middle High German wiltvanc . The exact development of the meaning is unclear. As early as the 15th century, the designation for game was mixed with the adjective wild for “free-living, impetuous, untamed” and the activity of catching with the noun catch for “prey”.

The following development of meanings can be read from the information in various old dictionaries:

  • Catching game or hunting in general - a rare importance today
  • derived from this the meanings hunting law ( hunting license) and hunting ground - outdated meanings
  • Transmission to wild animals, regardless of whether they were shot or caught alive or still living in the wild - with reference to animals killed today, this is almost only used in the field of fishing, as a contrast to aquaculture
  • Restriction to game caught alive with traps or nets , as opposed to game shot - from the 18th century the main importance in hunting
  • Transmission to other animal species - today extended to all kinds of wild animals caught alive
    • first wild caught and tamed birds (first hunting birds, later extended to all bird species)
    • later also wild horses
  • Transferred to exceptionally large animals of other species, such as large caught fish - obsolete meaning
  • regional and transfer to fruit trees (in the southern German area as the Alsace from the 15th century, in Switzerland from the 17th century) - obsolete meaning in written language is instead the expression Wildsling a
  • Transferred to humans as a term for
    • a homeless wanderer, a vagabond - outdated meaning
    • a refugee who can be taken in by the sovereign under the conditions of wild-catching law - outdated meaning
    • generally "stranger, foreigner " - outdated meaning
    • a wild, irrepressible or stubborn person, a good-for-nothing
      • originally as a swear word - outdated meaning
      • Used in written language in the 17th century, toned down but with a reprehensible undertone - outdated meaning
      • Attenuation in the sense of "lively person" or "thoughtless, reckless person" - outdated meaning
      • Increasingly restriction to exuberant children and adolescents , change to a loving word (sometimes also applied to older people who are young and fresh)

Building

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wildfang , meaning 2. Duden online.
  2. ↑ Wildfang , meaning 3. Duden online.
  3. ↑ Wild catch , meaning 1. Duden online.
  4. ↑ WILDFANG, WILDFANGRECHT ff.. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 30 : Wilb – Hyssop - (XIV, 2nd section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1960 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  5. ↑ Tomboy, the . .In: Adelung, Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect, Volume 4. Leipzig 1801, pp. 1545–1546., At zeno.org
  6. ↑ Wild- caught . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 19 . Altenburg 1865, p. 212 ( zeno.org ).
  7. ↑ Wild- caught . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 20, Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p.  629 .