Note

A piece of paper is a small, mostly loose piece of paper .

etymology

Even Adelung was the chief speaker at the Latin schedula back. The old Italian cedola or the late Latin schedula means 'small leaf' or 'leaflet'. “Schedula” is a diminutive of the Latin word scheda or scida , which originally meant a torn strip of the papyrus tree .

Notepad in a weaving mill

Adelung also points out that there is another word " Zettel " in the German language. However, both words have nothing to do with each other from the point of view of origin. - The verbs entangle and annihilate also do not refer to the paper slip , but to the slip in the weaving mill. The verb bogged down describes that a person maneuvers himself into a hopeless situation through poorly structured actions. This expression comes from the technical jargon of the weavers, where bogged down means either to confuse and spoil the yarn or to keep too little yarn for the weft (the number of transverse threads in a workpiece).

Large clutter on a desk is often referred to as a mess of papers .

application

The slip of paper is usually used to write something down, e.g. B. Shopping list or memo.

Today, notes can often be found in the form of sticky notes . The cheat sheets are almost as important .

The above The ambiguity of the word "Zettel" is taken up by the German writer Arno Schmidt in his main work Zettel's Traum . The name of the book plays u. a. on a character in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream , the Weber slip. Since March 15, 2002, a “slip” of the author's manuscript has appeared on the website of the Arno Schmidt Foundation . Other authors such as Hans Blumenberg or Niklas Luhmann also worked with an extensive card box with many excerpts .

The receipts issued by private banks in earlier centuries were called banknotes or "slips" and served as a means of payment until the introduction of state banknotes. The corresponding banks were called central banks or note banks . The Bank of Stockholm in Sweden was the first bank in the world to issue banknotes from 1661: so-called “Creditif-Zedel” (credit slip). Even today, in Sweden, as in other Scandinavian countries, banknotes are called sedel .

literature

Georg Stanitzek : Note. In: Handbook of Mediology. Signatures of the medial. Edited by Christina Bartz u. a., Fink, Munich / Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5385-3 , pp. 329-335.

Web links

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

Note, m. . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : German Dictionary . Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier).

Individual evidence

↑ 1. The Zêttel . In: Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect Bibliographical Information . Vol. 4, Col. 1694 f.

↑ 2. The Zêttel . In: Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect Bibliographical Information . Vol. 4, Col. 1695.

^ Spinning and weaving in the 19th century .

↑ Detlef Kuhlbrodt : The thing assemblies. The laws of disorder using the example of a desk. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 24, 2003, No. 170, p. 10.

↑ Note of the day .

^ The end of Kurantgeld : members.aon.at .

↑ Stockholms Banco 1657-1668: sedelmynt.se .

[1] 1. The Zêttel . In: Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect Bibliographical Information . Vol. 4, Col. 1694 f.

[2] 2. The Zêttel . In: Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect Bibliographical Information . Vol. 4, Col. 1695.

[3] Spinning and weaving in the 19th century .

[4] Detlef Kuhlbrodt : The thing assemblies. The laws of disorder using the example of a desk. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 24, 2003, No. 170, p. 10.

[5] Note of the day .